I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, ‘Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.
I like a deep sports massage – a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I’m getting in shape for a role.
Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it’s one thing. I don’t have a lot of time to think about dating.
In high school, I once sang ‘Let’s Get It On’ and ‘Brown Sugar’ with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
The more you are positive and say, ‘I want to have a good life,’ the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.
Fear runs our lives. It doesn’t matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.
Whether you’re scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation – you have to size fear up.
My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.
I do like dating cynics – they tend to be incredibly funny.
I love the ’40s. I love the ’50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I’m just in love with the cars. I’m in love with all of it.
I’m so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.
I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that’s just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn’t like a big romantic adventure.
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.