“Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'”

“I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?”

“I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.”

“I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.”

“I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.”

“I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a different play every night. I took a lot of voice, movement, and acting classes.”

“It's who you know and who can help you.”

“Writing has never been a driving force within me.”