Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.
Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.
When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.
The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.
[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.