Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about the role and it goes against my instinct, unless it makes sense to me, it often throws off what I'm trying to do. Though sometimes they have an insight that I don't because they've been living with the script. I don't have one feeling or another about notes, but it is always a little bit of a red alert when I get one in an audition.

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.