I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

And I think for me theres a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

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

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

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