Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.