I Just Don't Think [payne] Was The

I Love Doing Sitcoms And I Love Performing In Front Of A Live Audience, So [payne] Was A Really Fun Experience.

As An Actor, It Made Me Realize A Really Important Lesson. I Didn't Have To Put Any Spin On The Ball As Rita [in Dexter]. All I Had To Do Was Speak. And There Was Such Simplicity In That As An Actor. With Debra, I Was Trying To Put A Square Peg Into A Round Hole, And It Just Didn't Work, But In My Mind, Because I Had To Work So Hard On It, I Was, Like, "oh, This Is Acting!" But That's Not Acting.

I'd Been Doing Comedy Up That Point And Hadn't Really Done A Lot Of Drama, And Then All Of A Sudden He Casts Me As A 400-year-old Vampire From Hell. It Was, Like, "what?!"

The Fans Are Just As Passionate About The Projects As We Are About Making Them.

When They Took Me To Do The Camera Test For The Vampire Make Up, After They Put The Prosthetic On, I Went Though The Entire Process, I Went Back To My Trailer And I Looked In The Mirror And I Smiled.