In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

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 are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

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

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

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.