There are so many facets to the ways we learn about ourselves, and then therefore treat ourselves and others; the stories that young boys and girls l… - Penn Badgley

Honestly, for me, acting is just a very spiritual thing where I’m just present with the words I read on the screen, and when it’s awful and it kind of makes your skin crawl, then that’s what comes up and that’s what I do.

I certainly had the great bounty of drawing on my own experience, becoming a new biological parent, and that was quite natural.

I will say that honestly, as an actor ... As a person, I intellectualize plenty before and after, right? But really, as an actor during, I don't need to apply that same intellectual process because, first of all, when you play a character for this long, you just kind of know... It's very intuitive.