I've been the victim a lot, so I've often played the person who's getting raped or murdered or abused. And so, to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge, and one that was very difficult, at times.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

Sometimes I would go home from work and just stare at the wall for a couple of hours. But, I can't complain. Whatever knocks you out working is the kind of work that I want to be doing because it's always those challenges that are the most exciting, and the things I hope to get to keep doing in my work.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.