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.

Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Ask "why" until there is no more "why."

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.