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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.