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

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

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

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.

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

They call me Good Time Emo. Because I love a good time! And my name is Emo.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand