In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I'm sayin'?

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

I pretty much grew up in public.

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.