"The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can."

"Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody."

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."