My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.