None Of My Characters Have

I Remember Feeling A Huge Amount Of Anxiety And Worry And Pressure. At That Point I Was Headed Into Acting School. That Was 100 Percent The Only Thing I Thought I Wanted To Do. But Then I Got Through My First Year Of College, And I Was, Like, Humming And Rolling Around, Pretending To Be A Lion In Acting Classes At Nyu And Visiting Our Classmate Charlie Gregg At Harvard, Where He Was Actually Learning Things. So I Changed My Mind: I Decided I Actually Wanted A Different Kind Of Education, And That Was An Incredibly Freeing Idea.

I Would Like To Be Part Of A Family, However That Looks. Family Is Really Important To Me.

Over And Over In The Play My Character Says, "i'm Thirty-two Years Old," As If That Should Explain Everything That's Wrong In Her Life. I Don't Know What It's Like To Be Thirty-two, But I Can Imagine. I Imagine She Means She's Stuck In An In-between Time, She's At An Age That Isn't A Milestone But More Of A No-man's-land, An Age Where She's Feeling Like Her Hopes Are Fading.

Writing A Memoir Isn't Particularly Interesting To Me. I'm Not Like Ellen [degeneres], Where I Can Write, 'water Bottles--they're Crazy!' And It's Funny.

Some People Think My Father Was A Spy, Because Of Working For That Government Agency In Vietnam, But He Can't Find His Car Keys, Much Less Keep A National Secret.