The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.

Every time you start a new job, you're starting from the beginning again and it's terrifying. And you feel like you're going to be fired and told to go home and never to darken the doors of these people ever again.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't written that way in movies, especially characters for women. So you end up being either one thing or the other.

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.