What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in a room full of people who authentically knew as much or more than me, and feeling like I was absolutely equal, and what I had to say was important.

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.