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

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.