I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey, we had trash thrown on our lawn every day. And we had the lines to our Christmas lights cut three years in a row. We just stopped putting up Christmas lights after that. That's probably why I still don't put up any lights during the holidays.

I enjoy being surprised.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."