I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.