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"For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true."
"I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world."
"I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something."
"As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas."
"We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real."
"The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal."
"You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you."
"I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good."
"You have to find something you relate to in every character."
"Sometimes the characters that I'm most resistant to are the ones that I find the most satisfying to play, because you have to dig deeper and you have to find different parts of yourself that are not necessarily the first thing you access and that's fun and interesting."
"No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it."
"I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people."
"The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition."
"I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work."
"I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going."
"You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good."
"In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition."
"What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head."