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My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.