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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?

The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.

It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

I don't usually have those 'twin experiences' that people talk about.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.