You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.