Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.