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I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

When you act for a living, you are lucky enough to get to say things you really want to say. You get lines that you look forward to, lines that jump out like a jack-in-the-box; you're thinking: 'Wait till you hear this.'

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.