“I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you’re really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.”

We were on As the World Turns together with Trevor Vaughn. We played brothers on the show. Our friendship started there.

She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn’t getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.

It’s one thing believing in yourself, it’s another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren’t enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it’s been something that I’ve always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

You know it’s hard for me to, like, act the way I’ve been acting. And, like, being, like, nice to everyone. And I think I deserve to be acknowledged for that.

My life has been the antithesis of that book ‘The Secret’. I’ve always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I’m acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

There’s not a day that I don’t work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.