I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.