We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.