When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.