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Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.