No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

I landed about one a year. Just enough to make me question the gas money and all the driving in rush hour. When you audition for commercials, it's a lot of driving. What I netted wasn't exactly matching the hours I was putting in. I figured I'm not a face that makes people want to buy Lysol. Then I auditioned for Progressive.

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, ""All Day and All of the Night"" and still one of my all time favorites.