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.

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."

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

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.

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

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.