It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.