I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.