A day on a film set is maddening.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.