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I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.