I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

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 I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.