For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.

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

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

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.