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

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.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

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 had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.