I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Actors are investigators.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I try not to plan that too much.

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I don't want to repeat myself.

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

I've never been on a cruise.

Creating anything is hard.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.