Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.