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When I'm Writing My Blog, I Think Of Myself At 13 Years Old, Back In St. Louis, Daydreaming About Hollywood.

Sometimes Doing A Movie For A Short Period Of Time Is Better Than Committing Eight Months To A Television Show.

I'm A Lover Of Lists And Five-year Plans And Excel Spreadsheets. Any Way That I Can Have Any Control Over The Direction My Life Is Going, I Gravitate Towards That.

I Say It Was Like This Accidental Research That I Did For Eight Years. I Had No Idea I Was Researching The Role Of My Career. But Yeah, And There Was This One Casting Director Named Allison Jones, And For Five Years She Would Call Me In Every Year For A Different Tv Show And She Just Really Was A Big Supporter Of Mine.

I Don't Know If This Is True Of Everyone, But I Have This Relationship With My Parents Where, Despite However Mature Or Articulate Or Grown-up I Think I've Become, As Soon As I Go Home, I Turn Into This Petulant 13-year-old, Especially With The Tone Of My Voice.