To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. The hardest situation to stay happy, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. So I believe that happiness is being able to wake up and just know that this is what you wanted, and not what somebody else wanted.

I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I think the best beauty trick is to take good care of your skin. Wash your face at night, wear sunscreen, and hydrate.

My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper's Batman.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.