I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing. |
I was an English and history major, and I was in a class that culminated in a play at the end of the semester for Father's Weekend-we had a thing at our college called Father's Weekend where we all paid tribute to our fathers. |
I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character. |
I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway. |
I'm paranoid, anyway. |
I'm pretty organized. I'm pretty controlling. I don't have big plans or designs. But I don't rely on a Palm Pilot or help or other technology-no! I'm barely good with emailing and a fax machine. I organize things in my head; I have a pretty good memory, so that helps me out a lot. |
I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this. |
I've worked with a lot of great directors. |
If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive. |
If you look at the parts... they are really great parts, and the writing is always great, and the people that I've been able to work with are amazing. |
If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew. |
In these situations that I've been involved in, people are going toward a common goal, which is to do good work. The crew will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and give you an encouraging pat on the back. Everybody just works toward that objective, and it's really helpful in a performance. It's dire for me. |
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it. |
It does help that Dermot is an actor. I hate having to care about that stuff. But I know it's legitimate and he appreciates what the ramifications are. |
It does indicate something. It indicates that that person of a large profile feels strongly about it ... and is then endorsing it virtually by being in it. I don't know if that means that everyone will like it or that it's better necessarily, but it means that that person you like, who's a big star, is willing to put all of this lifestyle that they're accustomed to aside for something they want to do, which is always good to me. I always would rather see something people want to do, as opposed to something that they should. |