If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

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

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

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

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

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.