I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.