When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

My soul is in good shape.

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.

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

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

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

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

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