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.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

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 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.

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!

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.