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

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.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

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

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 need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.