The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.