It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.