I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.
I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
