But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.