“I was depressed for a year after ‘The Pianist,’ and I don’t suffer from that, generally. It wasn’t just a depression; it was a mourning.”
“It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.”
“Maybe I’m a bit superstitious, but I don’t like to talk about anything until I’ve done it.”
“You go to a theater, you’re in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don’t really know how many children they have or what their father’s nickname might be; you don’t have references and databases and rumors and half-truths – you’re just transported by their storytelling.”
“I’m very tall, so I like a guy who’s bigger than me – it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don’t like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.”
“The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don’t come to fruition and nobody sees them, there’s a part of you that dies a little bit. It’s like, ‘Ah! But I worked so hard!’ But that’s the business.”
“I am in total silence when I write – I don’t even like the sound of the dryer going – I like the quiet.”
“I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don’t need it, don’t want it, don’t require it, does not fill up my soul. It’s about her, not about the rest of it.”
“I don’t leave the house without a book, and I never watch television without one, either.”
“I don’t like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.”