It's always nice to have a large role, but if it's a great small part, those can be so much fun. Size is less important than quality, always.

Seeing a movie you're in is nothing like seeing a movie you're not in.

I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.

My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your hands. No matter what you do, you're not going to fix that as an actor.

If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

All improvement happens project by project and in no other way.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.