Eva Amurri

Eva Amurri: I think the only way actors get bad is when they get bored, and I hope to never get bored. [laughs] I hope to never get bored.

Eva Amurri: (on working with a UN program for children in Africa) I really love-love, love, love working with kids and in education, so it's something that kind of came into my lap and I ran with it. [laughs] And I love it. It's my favorite thing that I do besides my work, so it's a really nice experience to have.

Eva Amurri: (tips on shopping when in New York) I would say if you're in New York try to go shopping in the morning when it's not really crowded because I feel like - for me - shopping goes out the window as soon as I get too many people in the store. I like really don't want to be there. People are like grabbing on clothes to try on. It's just a nightmare.

Eva Amurri: (on why she did not get involve with theater in college) I wanted to make sure my time at college was academic and very different from what I feel like what I want to do forever after.

Eva Amurri: (on learning how to pole dance) I have such a respect now for women who do this. It's very athletic, I mean, they're athletes! It was so hard and so painful. It's like getting rug-burn, but a pole burn on your thighs. I had so many bruises.

Eva Amurri: I've always been a good kid, but I was a dork goody-goody in my school.

Eva Amurri: (on her preference between working on TV or in film) I just love a challenge. I love whatever can keep me on my toes. I would love to do plays, I would love to do that, so... I don't know, whichever way I can kind of explore, makes me happy.

Eva Amurri: (on her favorite thing about New York City) I love that you can leave your house in the morning and create your day as you go along and have the most amazing day you could ever have imagined and you didn't know it was going to happen when you left in the morning.

Eva Amurri: There's no one person that I look up to completely. Everybody has faults. There are a lot of people's careers who I admire. I admire careers of people who have done a lot of different projects, experimented a lot, and took a lot of changes.

Eva Amurri: I learned so much in college, and not just in terms of educational material. You learn so much about yourself, about how the world works, about how the world doesn't work, and I've always thought that what makes a good actor is experience.

Eva Amurri: Extremes are the most fun to play because you can really put a ton of energy and imagination and there isn't this place where it's getting a little close to yourself where you have to kind of make sure you draw the line between self and character. It's so extreme that you think you can really go for it. It's much scarier to play things that are closer to you, I think.

Eva Amurri: (being the daughter of actress Susan Sarandon and writer-director Franco Amurri) No matter who your parents are, you have to prove yourself -- to others and yourself.