I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

Do you remember when we learned how to fly? We'd play make-believe, we were young and had time on our side

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

If you aren't going to do something all the way, don't do it.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.