[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

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.