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.

You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

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."

Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting.

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

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