I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.