You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

What's important is self-appreciation

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

To me it is harder to play a real person, but when you do it and you feel good about it and the person feels good about it, I think that's doubly rewarding. So the challenge is greater, the risk is greater, but the reward is greater as well.