When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood..

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing..

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world..

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will f….

I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant..

I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food..

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I….

Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor..

I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate….

My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm th….

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of….

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my m….

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little….

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there wou….

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else..

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you….

I had a teacher who said something great. That was, 'Go out and collect your nos. Once you get fifty nos then you can start wondering when you can ge….

It's so easy to disappear into your character because there isn't all this fuss around you, and we keep a closed set, and closed off to all crew memb….

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in li….

I say it was like this accidental research that I did for eight years. I had no idea I was researching the role of my career. But yeah, and there was….

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role..