One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.