I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.