Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.