Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'

I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.

Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting.