I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I start to believe it's real. It's a strange thing to say, but it's the thrill of getting all the details right and being so absorbed in the character that people go along with the illusion.