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.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

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.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.