“I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play ev...” — Jake Epstein Quote

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

Obviously, doing TV and doing theater are completely different because they're two totally different mediums. On stage, you worry about your voice and how you move physically. On TV, something like an eye twitch is what they could be looking for from you because it's so contained.

I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

Everybody knows Nicki is my favorite, you can go look on the Internet, I got interviews talking about standing in line for 'Pink Friday.' I got a fake Barbie chain... I was obsessed with Nicki.

I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.