A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

It's true what they say about failure. You don't learn from success.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.