I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'd rather be able to know that I've made a choice that's right for me, than saying yes because I don't want my agents to be upset with me.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.