"I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable."
"I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in."
"If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day."
"I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies."
"Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives."
"Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day."
"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
"And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them."
"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."
"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."
"I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm."
"I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there."
"People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly."
"I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way."
"There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people."
"It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways."
"As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance."
"I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards."
"When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it."
"Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible."
"The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months."
"I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself."
"I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work."
"I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s."
"When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming."
