To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

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.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.