I love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about and that I'm kind of obsessed with. And just as an actor, it's a great exercise. It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present and in the moment and exploring together as a team, a collaboration.

It's a daunting thing to be playing a real person and to have contact with her and meet her and be in her circle a little bit. It's an odd thing. There's so much responsibility to tell the story honestly and truthfully, and at the same time, you start to develop a friendship with this person - or I did.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.