I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

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

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

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

I say it was like this accidental research that I did for eight years. I had no idea I was researching the role of my career. But yeah, and there was this one casting director named Allison Jones, and for five years she would call me in every year for a different TV show and she just really was a big supporter of mine.