I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

I have a lot of faith in people.