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Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.