I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like a piano, and there are 88 keys, and there are some white keys and some black keys, and each character is a different chord on the piano. Basically, I hope that in the course of my life, I will have played all 88 keys. So, I’ll have played heroes and villains and princes and kings and warriors and beggars and thieves and lovers and fathers and wizards and all of those things. That is why I’m an actor… I love studying people.

It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.