I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.