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.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

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

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.