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

We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

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'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 smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.