I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

I think a lot of women, in the way that they might attach emotion to sex, attach emotion to food, in a different way than men.

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.