If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.