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

People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

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

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

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

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.