“Using clothes to transform was a huge part of my childhood. But also, I've been …” — Allison Mack

Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.