Actress

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

I can't take anything seriously.

Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

I can't walk in heels at all.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.