My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.