My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.