Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.