I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

I love it, to have the same crew. I'm not married. I don't have children. My 17-year-old dog died. I'm kind of on my own. So I really like having the same camera guy for four years. I love looking around and seeing the hair and makeup people who have been there from the beginning.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.