Born on October 21st

"People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that."

"Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often."

"I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman."

"Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing."

"Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else."

"I can clap with one hand."

"I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school."

"'Rent' was my first professional job, ever."

"I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY."

"I watch a lot of television. I always have."

"I just feel like I have a lot to prove."

"I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school."

"I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre."

"I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to."

"It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show."

"After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed."

"I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over."

"I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to."

"Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it."

"Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it."

"Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way."

"I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things."

"I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it."

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do."

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance."

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it."

"In the field of resilience & focus, we are not defined by the weight of our struggles, but by the strength we find when we rise."

"Like a lighthouse in the storm, your inner resolve must remain steady and bright. As a historical figure, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The hardest trials do not consume the gold; they refine the spirit and clear the path ahead."

"May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people."