A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

No one is any one thing.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.