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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.