I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.