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

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

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

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

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

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

I just saw dialogue, in the audition, and had no backstory. I was like, "I'm just going to be myself because I have no idea who this is or where he's coming from." The typical questions that actors have to ask themselves were very hard. I had to imagine, a little bit, and just made it work.