Yeah, You Know I Don't

I Studied Theater In College, And I Really Wanted To Be An Actress And Play A Lot Of Different Roles. Then I Made Landing On A Television Comedy My Main Focus.

With "the Office," They Said, "we Don't Want Anyone We Recognize, So Give Us Unknown Actors," And I Think That Was The Break That I Needed. Because I Went In And I Got The Role.

I Think That There Is A Tragic Misfit At The Core Of Me, And I've Just Done A Lot Of Work On Myself. I Love A Good Self-help Book; I've Read A Ton Of Them. I Love Self-help Seminars And Therapy And All That. I Think That Probably, At My Core, If I Had Done No Work On Myself, I Would Probably Be Laura From The Mysteries Of Laura, But I Worked Hard To Be A More Stable Person Because That's What I Wanted Out Of My Life.

I Got Divorced, After Having Been Married For Almost Eight Years. That Is A Very Life-altering Experience. There's A Period Of Time That You Go Through, Where You're Having To Adjust To Knowing Yourself And Knowing Who You Are From Being A Couple To Being An Individual Again.

I Think I Am An Actress And I'm Artistic And I Love Spontaneity And All Of That, But I Just Decided Really Early On That If I Didn't Also Try To Ground Myself I Would Probably End Up Like This Character Of Laura In A Little Help , Or Like So Many Young People In Hollywood, Sort Of Go Off The Rails. So I'm Pretty Attached To My Routines And My Grounded Ways.