I'm Always Surprised Reading My Old Journals.

The Great Thing About Theater Is That You Have So Much Time To Prepare, And To Fail, Before Presenting It To The Public. In Film, The High-wire Act Seems To Be That Much Farther Up, And The Net Seems To Be Less There.

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.

I Feel Prematurely Old. I'm Actually Having This Major Belated Quarter-life Crisis. I'm Turning 30 In A Couple Of Weeks. I've Been Thinking A Lot About Mortality. A Lot About What I'm Going To Do With My Life And How To Enjoy It. One Of The Things I'm Going To Work On Is Being More Spontaneous, Letting Go, Embracing The Beauty Of Come-what-may.

I Grew Up In A House Where My Father Went On Auditions, And He Got Some And He Lost Some, And There Were Good Years And Lean Years. I Didn't Expect Anything From The Business, And That's Often A Danger In Hollywood, The Notion That If You're Pretty And Have White Teeth And Just Show Up For The Game Then You'll Win.

We Come From Fallible Parents Who Were Kids Once, Who Decided To Have Kids And Who Had To Learn How To Be Parents. Faults Are Made And Damage Is Done, Whether It's Conscious Or Not. Everyone's Got Their Own 'stuff,' Their Own Issues, And Their Own Anger At Mom And Dad. That Is What Family Is. Family Is Almost Naturally Dysfunctional.