I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

I don't have life rage anymore.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.