Depending on what stage I’m at in my career, I either work or don’t work because I’ve been offered one thing.

The only way to silence a room that’s laughing at you is to sort of take over.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone’s going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

I don’t really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I don’t spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it’s framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn’t seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can’t.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn’t think you could do.

I tend to lose my performance energy the longer things go on for, so I’m always best on the very first take.

I like working with a first time director. I’m more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that’s the easiest. I don’t do a lot of things that don’t relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.