It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.