The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.