As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.