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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.