For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.

As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.

If Ive got a clean pair of jeans and a T-shirt, thats usually a good day for me.

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Moments of pure happiness...come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.