I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus. But when you become an actress, you want to play a variety of things.

I was definitely raised this way. My folks are very grounded, normal people, and I wasn't raised in the entertainment industry. I just grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a very normal family. I wasn't a child actor or anything like that.

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

My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.