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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all. I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment.

I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.

I want to show audiences I can act.

If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation that they're in, but most of all get the audience invested in the characters - then I always feel like I can sort of put them in the most outrageous circumstances, and the audience is okay to go with that.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.