Actor

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

It's just always wonderful to have a director who encourages you so much to focus on the present.

I'm not someone who seeks out stories of people who are suffering. I think they just kind of find me.

My family and my closest friends are my favorite things about being home.

I had done some community theater plays and I just had so much fun doing it. I was a really shy kid growing up and it gave me a platform to be able to express myself in a way that I didn't feel comfortable doing yet in my own skin.

I loved working on 'Boardwalk.' I had a very limited run on it, but I did love it and that was quality television.

The greatest thing in the world as an actor or an artist to connect.

I'm a pretty emotionally available person.

Basically, every film I've been a part of has been pretty sad and pretty hard to watch.

When I was about 12, I saw Mark Rylance do this play in New York City called 'Jerusalem' and that really changed the game for me.

In my time, I've gotten the chance to play a few different people who are younger and have been rejected by their parents, and I think a lot of times that results in them really seeking help, even subconsciously doing so.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

My favorite football team is the Atlanta Falcons. I love watching them although I have a love/hate relationship because they do make me angry and sick to my stomach at times.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

I think everyone has experienced the realization about their parents in some way. I most certainly have. That doesn't mean you don't love your parents or mean you aren't going to be loyal to them. But, you are both human beings who have different opinions.

Everyone relates to the heroes - that's why they're the heroes. But I've realized there are just more layers to characters who have been through something dark.

There's a lot of ways someone can grow up, but one way is discovering your parents are not all they say they are.

I think one of my favorite directors is P.T. Anderson - living directors, I should say. And Spike Jonze is one of my favorites, Gus Van Sant.

When I was growing up my parents never thought I would be an actor.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can't really connect. You do feel like you're alone in something.