If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

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

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.