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

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.

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.

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.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Your choices are where your future begins.

If Gage finds out, he's going to have a cow-horns, balls, and all.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.