My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

By county, there's like 14 different accents in Mississippi alone. And now, present day, a Mississippi accent is different than in 1963. So we had a dialect coach, which is like going to visit France and having to translate all your emotions into French, and French isn't your first language. I had to go through that filter, so it was interesting.

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.