When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.