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.

I'm trying to have no regrets. I'm starting to learn about myself and how to live. As an actor, part of the job is accepting your life and learning how to roll with it. I want to live a life where I don't regret any decisions, and if I do, I learn from them.

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.