New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.