"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."

"The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted."

"It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt."

"When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave."

"Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am."

"I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character."

"The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue."

"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."