It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

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.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

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've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!