Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.
What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.
In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.
You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.
I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.
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've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.
There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.
I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.
If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.
I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy."
The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"
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.
Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.
Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.
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 daily basis.
I work constantly to be better at being rejected.
You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.
The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.
The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.
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.
I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.
As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.
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.
