Quotes

[on performing as a complicated villain in 'Homeland'] It is like reading a foreign book with ten different dictionaries sitting there. When I am playing a villain, I'm not really 'playing a villain' because a villain never looks at himself as a villain. He is being judged by the audience whether he is a villain or a hero. So you just need to be very non-judgmental when you play those types of characters. They are fascinating. That torture and torment and dark side inside us is all just point-of-view. That's what make it dark or light.

We are all vessels and what's inside us doesn't know any colour, doesn't know any kind of race. We need to look at each other and see each other for what we are, not for what we have been told the other person is.

[on the popularity of the 'Homeland' series] I think it is a very brave show. It talks about issues that most people may have thought about but are afraid to talk about. They are drawn to it because it doesn't give them answers, it just teases their mind to start thinking about these topics. It doesn't create a hero, it creates an atmosphere for viewers to put themselves into and think what they would do if they were put into that situation.

People ask me where I went to school and I tell them the world has been my school. i have been in different theatre schools and acting schools all around the world, but it's each person on the street - they are my teacher.