Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.

At drama school, I got a job choreographing and teaching the fights for Mark Rylance doing 'Hamlet' at the Globe in London when I was only 19. They made me fight captain.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.