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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

I think it's important to change and not be associated with your character too much.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.

Playing the misunderstood character has been really interesting to me. But I think after too long, that also becomes a little bit of a cliche. Or that's all you're expected to do. I didn't want that to be the totality of what my career was.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.