Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.