I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.