Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

I really wanted to get out of England.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.