I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.

Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"