I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

The more people you run into, the greater your exposure, the easier it is to understand and empathize with other people. So if you are living in a much smaller ecosystem, it's probably easier to have simpler feelings.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

Secrets can be poisonous.

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.