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.
No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.
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.
You have to find something you relate to in every character.
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 more about novelty than my immense talent.
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer.
Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.
We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.
Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.
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.
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.
We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.
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 problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."
