You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

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

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.