AYA CASH

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.

There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat.

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.