Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

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.

I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

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.

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

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.