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

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

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

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

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

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.

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