My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.