The single best thing an actor can do, both professionally and personally, is to create their own work.
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 there.
It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I’m surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I’m really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.
I’m not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.
Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.
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 main focus.
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 them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
I’m a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year’s resolutions went.
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it’s going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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 life.
Yeah, you know I don’t ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.
When I’m writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.
The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you’re a kid – fun all the time.
Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
Every project you finish has value.
Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion. Link arms and walk into any crowd, fake laughing like you own the world and you will!
Sometimes that’s all you need to help you move forward: You need the right person to listen.
Gone are the days of buying stamps and mailing audition submissions. Today we have the internet. No more post office.