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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.