If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

You look for the roles where, when you read it, you're just like, "Yes, I know that. I know that feeling. I know what it means to feel like that. I know this person." When you have a soulful connection to a part, that's a dream come true.

There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought you, at the age of 12 or 13, could have a better understanding of Stanislavski. Why did you think that you didn't need to go to school?" It was quite funny. But, I was certainly inspired.