The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

I think I'm a million different faces

I want to try everything.

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon

You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.

Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness.

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I think that it’s not as crazily different, my job, from anyone else’s, as people let themselves believe. I think people get wrapped up in their own idea of what it is, but it’s really not that.

Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.