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I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

If someone has to be the villain, I'll be the villain. I have no problem with it. The movies still say, 'Starring... the villain.'