There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.