You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

The world isn't what you think it is.

I'm only the messenger.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.