I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you’re playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually – the physicality, the gestures, the walk – for me.

I’ll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I’ve been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn’t come to you easily.

I find there’s almost no place to put an award that one’s quite comfortable with.

I’ve always had facility with the German accent.

Also, I had read a book called She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don’t understand.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don’t choose this.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It’s not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

You know, I've seen great actresses who have never had children portray mothers with such passion and skill that you would never know.