What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

For a relative newcomer, it's obviously a dream to work with such a talented actress as Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at 10, or something ridiculous like that. That's a dream.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

Until I did my work and I did my utmost best, I feel like I don't have a right to feel excited.

An actor's job is to do their job. It's great if it's successful and it's fantastic when it's a huge hit, but at the same time, you're there to do a job and make sure you do it well.

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

Little liberties are great offenses.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

When I joined an all-boys baseball team, my mom wasn't too happy. I proved to her (and to me) that I could do anything I set my mind to.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.