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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors.

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.