Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

That's one of the most important things about acting is not just when you're speaking but when you're taking in from someone else. So I often go to the theater and I'm watching the person who's not talking. I love that.

One of the things that I love when I go to a film or when I'm reading some book or whatever, is to be told a secret I thought only I knew and then someone says, "Oh my gosh, you know, too." And film can take us into private moments in a way that the theater, I think, kind of can't, and that's one of the reasons I like doing films. And the way a book can is that these little secrets and the private things that go on in our minds that maybe we haven't shared with anyone, and then someone writes it or shows it to you in a film, you think, "Oh, that's me. Oh my God, that's me, I have that secret."

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business you need to have a certain internal stability.

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do.

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!