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" The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else. "

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" I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it. "

" Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane. "

" Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor. "

" I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. "

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" Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it! "

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