We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.