I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

In the age of camera phones and screenshots and Twitter.... At the end of the day, I want to share my life with somebody, you know? I want picture albums. I want to look back at our time together. And I also want kids. And if you want kids, then you want marriage.

The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.