When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

I've been into weight training for many, many years and you add to that a good dose of cardio, don't overindulge, and you can do all right.

I was relatively buff (before 'Avatar'), because I was working in a tanktop half the time on stage, anyway, but I just went kind of into hyperdrive after that and really worked to beat that old body into shape, to get that carcass where...I didn't want to be looking at it and see anything hanging where it shouldn't be hanging.

On some level acting is the art of pretend and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.