The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

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.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.