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.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.
Casting is storytelling.
If Beyonce needs another back up dancer, I mean, I could make time.
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 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.
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.
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.
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.
If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.
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.
