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

You get ideas from other people all the time.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

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

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

I really wanted to get out of England.