Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.