I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in.