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

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

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.

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

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

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