I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.