Mark Billingham

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.