A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.
I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.
Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better.
The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
There is pressure, and I would never complain about that, but as players we put pressure on ourselves all the time. That's one thing I won't miss when I finally stop playing.
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.
You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.
