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?"
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.
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."
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.
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.
As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.
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.
I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.
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.
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 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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.
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.
I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.
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.
You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.
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