Breaking Out of the Mold Quotes

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

It's so hard to make noise coming from a small town that by the time you start branding yourself, you've grown in a certain way.

When you work in animation that's all for a family audience, as an adult you desperately want to break out of that.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

I used to get typecast when I was younger.

When I walked away from my role as Angie in 'Eastenders' all those years ago, it was a huge risk, but I always had this great desire to do so many things.

If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

As a young aspiring journalist, I felt I was put into a box.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.