I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!