I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.