With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.