And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

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

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

My advice is to make acting your second career choice