I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.