The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

I think flirting is great fun. It doesn't mean that anything's going to come of it but it's fun to be told that you're hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that have been done before. I was a fan of the 'Smurfs' and they come with their own fan base, which I thought was nice.