I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see

I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.