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.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

We are the choices we have made.

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.