I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.

There is a dream that the world could be at peace, but that requires that all the folks with arms disarm, or take over all the arms and allow us to trust them.

I can fish from a stick and a string.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.