All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.