I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.