It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.