I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

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.

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

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.