Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy."

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

You have to find something you relate to in every character.