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 have to find something you relate to in every character.

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

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

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

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

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.