Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

A fever is an expression of inner rage.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.