I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.