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.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

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

If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.