I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

I would play football, because I love it.

I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball.

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.