Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I can't stand most things that I see.

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.

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.