"My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me."

"Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money."

"I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on."

"The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character."

"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."

"It is a radiant truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."

"Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music."