You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it a few different ways. You have to be flexible; you have to be in collaboration with the director; you have to be versatile. But you also want to be protective of what you really believe in and how you feel it should be portrayed.

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.

We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.