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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Whether that's positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.

I'm not revolted by Washington.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.

I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

Life's all about perceptions.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

The relationship with the cast has everything to do with how a performance develops, and in a sense that while you're discovering a play in the course of rehearsal with the director, you're also discovering it with your fellow actors. We're all in it together.

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.

I don't play villainy. I wouldn't even know how to play it.

I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels like when you're standing in front of a forty piece orchestra, and there's nothing between you and an audience but a microphone. It's like strapping yourself to a locomotive, and I love it.

I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.

Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.