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

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

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?

New Orleans in an amazing town.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

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.