I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.