Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

In school, I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.