Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"