When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.