If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters - and therefore what they are trying to portray - then all they need to do is be the characters and there's a chemistry there.

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you've got to diet, you've got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won't show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you've to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that's how you get an eight pack.

If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.

I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.