What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.