I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.