I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!