Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.