Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.