It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.