'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.
I remember watching Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth' and feeling like for the first time - even though that time period wasn't happening now - that I believed that role.
What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.
To be in the same room as Claire Underwood is like a dream come true.
I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.
One of my favorite films is 'Let the Right One In.'
I grew up watching Kathy Bates, and 'Misery' is one of my favorite films.
Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.
When I was at uni, I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be here.' Something just didn't feel right. When I finished, I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition, and I'm not going to fight that.
With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.
I told my agent that I wouldn't do TV unless it was Ryan Murphy, 'House of Cards,' or HBO.
'House of Cards' I've watched since the first day.
I can say that working with Jessica Lange has been one of the most incredible joys of my life.
I have never had more fun in my life playing a character than I've had playing Michael Langdon. He's so delicious. He's so layered and complicated.
If people hate Michael Langdon, that's a good thing. I'm not going to debate that. I don't worry about making him likeable... My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.
With 'Versace,' after I had gotten the , it was two weeks of preparation before I started filming, and I had read Maureen Orth's book; I had been able to get a hold of photos and really start to inhabit the mind of David Madson.
I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.
I'm a very positive person in my life. I'm very optimistic.
I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.
I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I used to cry and run; they seemed so powerful and so unpredictable.
