Damon Lindelof is hypnotizing. His imagination is without limits, and Tom Perrotta, as well. You begin to just trust, completely, where the story is going, knowing that you're entirely safe in the truthfulness of it.

I guess getting older has its benefits, one of them being perspective.

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.