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To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.

I don't like sympathetic characters.