Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions and Radio Disney.

Growing up, I watched a lot of Shirley Temple movies.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

I hone my craft. I keep going. I light a little fire under myself. I look around for roles that will challenge me. And I'm grateful for all the ones I get.

Humor is healing.

I don't find that I subscribe or believe in many rules about what comedy is and what makes it funny.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.