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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.