Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.