Andrew Scott

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that. ”

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor. ”

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges. ”

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has. ”

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres. ”

Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to. ”

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome. ”

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. ”

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama. ”

Life's too short. ”