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.

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 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 will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

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.