When it comes to the heart, I tend to be very serious. I don’t fool around. I don’t play the field. It’s one at a time.

I feel so blessed that I've been able to achieve what I have without a lot of pain and struggle. There are so many actors out there who are immensely talented and some I know are pretty close to starving.

When you know the audiences not only like what you're doing, but that they're also responding, it's as good as it can get for an actor.

It’s great to be in films with names, but you don’t necessarily become friends. I’ve never had the type of career that’s built on whom I know. I’ve never worked that social angle. It takes a special talent and I don’t have it, so I’ve just gone with trying to do a good job.

I always wanted to be an actor, ever since I can remember. I grew up subjecting my family to really bad shows in the living room. It's what I love to do.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

Every day was a struggle for me there. I just didn't fit that program either. But I'm so glad now I did it, because it gave me all this technical skill I never thought I'd need. I'd never have been able to do the German phonetically in this movie (Sweet Land) if I hadn't gone to Juilliard.

Humor is the only way to make it through these intense, frightening situations that our characters face. I hung out in an ER when I was researching for this role, and I found that the doctors were really funny. They were always finding the humor within these frightening situations. Humor is real. Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on. (On preparing for Saved)