It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.