If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.

Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.

I find that I have no problem getting a table at a restaurant when I walk in.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.