Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Labels are for cans, not people.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.