I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!