I personally don’t feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn’t if I tried anyway.

If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

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.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.