I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the same thing with music. When I'm writing a song or I'm in the studio, those memories, that's epic.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.