There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.

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

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

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

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

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.