I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

You try to find the internal life, but a lot of it is creating it through physical behavior and figuring out the voice when you create as much of a past as you would in a naturalistic piece. But it's fun, because it's like you're learning something, learning some kind of physical skill.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Even when you think you can detach yourself from the characters, you don't. Because you're spending so much time trying to realize this person and make them real that they do infect you, in a way. And you do take them home and live with them, even if you think you're turning the character off. But in order to pull off a role convincingly, you wind up thinking about that person all the time, and it does sort of creep into you. And then there are things that you'll respond to, or react to in a very different way than you would normally.