You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.