The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

When it came down to doing the nude scene, I couldn't hide how humiliating it was for me; I burst into tears.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.