The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.