I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I don't know anything about science.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.