Parts win prizes, not actors.

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.