I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

I can't cry on demand. I need to feel what I'm feeling. I can't just say, 'Give me a moment' and then cry.

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.