When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
I don't know if this is why everything has worked so well and I'm not sure I'd recommend this kind of thinking to anyone else, but I've always known I'd be successful in acting. I have certainly worked for it.
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
It's a living, breathing thing, acting.
There is no right in acting.
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.