I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason.

I taught high school students Spanish.

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

Im always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

Once you act with someone, who gives you so much to feed off of, you just have to be there and be yourself, and it comes out.

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

On 'Awake, ' we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on 'Anger Management, ' we can take maybe 10 minutes on a scene if we're lucky.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Violence is my last option.

The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

That's the thing that most people don't realize. In real life, comedians aren't funny. They save it. They save it up.

There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.