In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

I really like the relaxed glamour of the 70s.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

Sometimes I look at where we've come to, and how much technology and advancement there is, and I can't believe that we're not this perfectly balanced, beautiful, peaceful society. I'm shocked that we're so deeply polarized, that there are people who want progress and they feel guilty for wanting progress, because it somehow seems un-American, because being American means staying ignorant and going backward.