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

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer.

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.

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.