“If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.” — Rebecca Hall Quote

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

I thought there was something intrinsically fascinating about people who communicate for a living and are incapable of communicating in their personal lives.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

There's a reason a lot of us act basic or like basic things - because it's fun. So to me being basic is an enjoyable thing.

The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Don't act like a bank unless you are a bank. That was a really big lesson learned from 2008.