For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.