Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

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.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Being is like pretending.

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

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