"Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction."

"My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins."

"That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves."

"I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

"Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business."

"I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow."

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."