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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Roles make the actor.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.