To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.