Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I'm really open to everything.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

I don't come from money.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I've always been a really ambitious person.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.