When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.