I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.