When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

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

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

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.

My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.