At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

I've always known I wanted a family.

The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.