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I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'