Most of the work I do is for dictionaries investigating word origins, but I'm also doing some of my own research so that I can get a Ph.D. I remember when people found out they would ask, "But what do you mean? Don't you have to be really smart for that?"They would assume that a person couldn't be a soap opera actress and smart at the same time. I think that's probably why I don't talk about it too much. In this business, many people think that being intelligent means you're threatening, and they do not give you jobs because of it, or they always give you the role of the smart kid in the class. They never see that its just acting. I mean, does playing an idiot or a serial killer mean that you're dumb or that you would kill people in real life? Of course not.