The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

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

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.