It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

There's a real simple analogy. You have to perceive it from the ground up. You have to lay a firm foundation, then every step becomes part of a logical process.

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42].