I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.