I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
My objective is that I don’t try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I’ve done before. And, I’m a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it’s more fun for me, actually.
I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
Things happen in the way they usually should. I’m a pretty fatalistic person.
I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I’ve never cried chopping onions is when I’m not thinking about it, when I’m talking to someone or I’m listening to music.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
It’s always better just to do work that you’re really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that’s it and who knows after that. I think that’s what I love in acting.
I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that’s out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
It’s sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don’t think you can predict it anymore – who’s going to like what you’ve done, if it’s worthy or not. And hopefully, that’s not why you make a film, because if you’re distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don’t do it justice.
My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.
With Ricky Gervais, it’s all shades of wrong, it’s my kind of humor.