I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.