The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

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.

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.