One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'
I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
Every kid wants to be an actor. When I was a kid, I thought, 'Oh, it'd be great to be like Errol Flynn. I want to be an actor.'
My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
Casting is storytelling.
If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.
My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.
I've been in training for stardom.
I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.
Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.
I'd love to do a drama.
I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.
I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.
The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money.
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
