The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

"Striking looking." That's a euphemism if I ever heard one.

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.