Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.