"When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter."

"When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor."

"I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body."

"I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life."

"When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'"

"It is a humble truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really."

"I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh."