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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.