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I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

I'd always keep going back to the acting. Once the rent was paid, and the phone bill, the next money you had was for acting classes.

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.

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.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.