The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.