It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I love being part of the team.

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots!

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.

If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.

Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.

I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.