I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.