You can live vicariously through the characters you play.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.