I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me and Della is in the same situation, so life imitated art in many ways. I don't think I could be a journalist. I wouldn't make a very good journalist, especially in Washington and working in politics, which I think would be really tough.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.