Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.