When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So you have to learn how to do it….

You get ideas from other people all the time..

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like tha….

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast..

People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector wa….

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener..

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, w….

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun..

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain..

I really wanted to get out of England..

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively..

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written..

I keep mementos from everything I've done..

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it..

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playi….

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the sam….

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris….

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught….

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to c….

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being ki….