When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Often times, being in a popular thing means that you have to compromise your own acting.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.