The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me to see the process - not just the result, the red carpet, all of the wonderful, fun things that happen afterwards - the nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty, "Let's try to build this character from the page," tech rehearsals.

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.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

I admire fashion and I respect it greatly, but I don't necessarily follow trends. I never really have. I just wear what I like to wear. I really like colors, and there are some things I wear and don't care what anybody says about it being in style or not. I wear it anyway.

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

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

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