Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.