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

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.