I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.