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.

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

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

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.

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

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.