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

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

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

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

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.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.