Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I get really excited about jewelry.

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

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

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

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.