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

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.

If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then.

The exercise in theater is night after night you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore. It changes nightly even because of the audience and your day going into the evening of the performance. With film it's much more controlled.