My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

I remember when I started acting and didn't get a part and was really jealous of the girl who got it. My mom would say to me, "If you don't get a part, that means it's not your part. It's just not yours. You will have your parts." It really recalibrated me at a very young age to where I could be driven because I was trying to achieve things for myself, and that had nothing to do with what anybody else was doing.

I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.