Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Always good to shake it up and do something different.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.
I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
Sometimes you need to come out of your comfort zone a little bit.
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.
If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.
The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.
I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.
I auditioned just for fun.
I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'
I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.
But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.
If you can do something exciting and unusual, you might as well give it a go.
I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up in comedy.
If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain't never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you're like, No man, these my colors. You won't know purple is your color until you try it on.
