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I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.