I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.

You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.