It has a gift shop, which is awesome. I always like to go early, get my ticket, and then bum around. I love the regimented way they handle movie going, how after a certain point they won’t let you in. It keeps me on schedule. I go there to see three movies back to back when I have a day off from work.

One of the last temp jobs that I had before I took the plunge and decided to try acting was working in one of their administrative offices, pushing papers. I was so far removed from the glamorous galleries, but every lunch hour I would slip away and walk the grounds, and I fell in love. I didn’t really have a lot of money to go to a beautiful gallery and walk around back then—I think I didn’t have a car at the time—so the whole experience for me was that Cleveland girl-big dreams experience. Riding that tram up and seeing the Getty appear as if out of the heavens, it was a magical time.

I’ve been there since the day they opened because I’m a big Cheesecake Factory fan, and when I heard it was like that but an experience and more shishi poopoo, I was like, I’m in. I know all the waiters and they all know me. I’ve spent my birthday there every year for the last four or five years. I get the miso salmon but without the vegetables and with extra rice.