As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life. I would read all night. My mom would come into my room and tell me I had to go to sleep, so I would hide books under my bed. At first I had a tough time getting through novels, so I read plays, because a play is generally shorter and has all those tools for getting people hooked early on.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like a half-person because you've integrated yourself into an idea of a couple for so long, and then teasing that out and finding out who you are without them, it just takes a while. It feels like an amputation.

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman