I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.