“I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.”

I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic.

For me, if the writing and – by extension – the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn’t matter if it’s film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

I like people and I like hearing their stories. The way that they deliver them is always very particular and I think that their accents are integral to that.

There’s something special about being on film sets; there’s an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films.

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.

I’m actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

We confuse money with actual wealth.