When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

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

Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

No one should be offended - that's not my style.

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