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Acting is like a game of tennis. The better your opponent, the better you're going to play.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.