I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

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

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.