What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

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

The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.