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

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.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

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

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

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