I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.