I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll never really fully commit to who it is and what it is that you're playing.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

Just by the nature of what we do it kind of gets you out of the regularities of life. Playing pretend for a living is a good way to have a release and playing make believe is a good way of getting away from it and doing things like this. So I think work gets me away from life.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.