I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

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.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.