“I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you’re really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.”

We were on As the World Turns together with Trevor Vaughn. We played brothers on the show. Our friendship started there.

She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn’t getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.

It’s one thing believing in yourself, it’s another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

Acting’s always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I’m not working. And then when I’m actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

I wasn’t disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that’s why I knew it just wasn’t right for me.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

For me personally, I’m mostly focused on writing and acting right now.