Nichole Hiltz

Nichole: I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else and nobody ever told me no so I just followed it.

Nichole: (on doing anything else besides acting) Either that or a rock star, but I'd have to see if I was good at it. I have no other skills. This is the hardest question you could ever ask me. I'm not good at anything else any more. I put all my eggs in one basket. I'm good at being fun.

Nichole: I think in playing a character you have to have compassion and love for it in order to play it authentically.

Nichole: For me, comedy is just so fun on stage and I did some of that when I first got to Los Angeles. I love hopping into Second City, and Improv Olympic and those places and doing one-night performances with other actors. It's always such a thrill.

Nichole: (on her preference for a particular role) I like being given something and given the opportunity to try something and then I can surprise myself. I don't really picture myself as a specific role, I like to give a shot at anything, just try to do it and make it real.

Nichole: (about her preference between working in movies or on TV) I don't really have a preference. Some people say working on films, role-wise, it's the best, and the idea of being this character for three months and diving into them. But I love doing television, because you have the opportunity to guest star on a lot of shows and you get to play different characters all the time.

Nichole: (advice for aspiring young actors) If you don't love it then you shouldn't; you have to beyond really love it to really do it, but you can't figure that out, I guess, until you try everything.

Nichole: (Malina plays her onscreen boyfriend on "In Plain Sight".) I was delighted to have a TV boyfriend. Then I was delighted to find out it was Josh Malina.

Nichole: (in a 2008 interview) After high school, I was taking film acting classes in Boston and nobody ever really told me that I couldn't. It's weird doing this now; it's almost like I never looked up, I never took the time to be scared of it, and now I'm doing it and madly in love with it. It's the best relationship I have in my life.

Nichole: (comparing herself to her "In Plain Sight" character) Emotionally, I think we're very similar. Yes, there are a lot of things that are very much the same between me and Brandi, except that I have a job and I don't have a meth addiction. Neither of us have boyfriends and, yes, she's very heartfelt, very much loves her family and is very much into her friends and forgets about herself a lot. I can relate there sometimes.

Nichole: The naughtiest thing in my bedroom is me! I'm naughty.

Nichole: You know, it [the film May] was exactly my life. It's my E! True Hollywood Story. Of all the movies I've done, May is my favorite.