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 t….

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good..

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success..

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into..

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going..

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head..

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else..

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was….

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition..

There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those prob….

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected..

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it..

You have to find something you relate to in every character..

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist..

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….

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real..

The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat..

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts..

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..

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a dail….

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..