One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.