People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.