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

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

My soul is in good shape.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

To act well isn't an easy thing.