Quotes from Nicholas Lea

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.