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

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

Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy."

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

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

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.

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