Children reinvent your world for you.

My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, "Oh, my God, I don't want anything to come though here. I'm not worthy, I'm not ready." I didn't want to be one of those kids who sees Our Lady of Fatima.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

It gets to be 2 a.m., and they hand you a bottle of whipped cream and some syrup and things start getting silly.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?

Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.