I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary

I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.

I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.

I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.