For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.

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

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

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I was an English major in college!

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