I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant.

And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.