I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.