You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting.

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.