There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.