Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.