You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

I try not to think about that [getting Oscar] ahead of time. You just try to do the best work you can, and then you get the movie out there, and we've been hearing good things. But you never know, you don't want to get too high, and you don't want to get too low.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.