The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.

I loved adventure movies. I loved movies where people went on an adventure to an unknown land, an undiscovered country, or a new territory. I think there's something, right at the center of storytelling, that people love about that.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.