If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

Invented the #hashtag.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.