When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.