There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

Medicine is so fascinating.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Let's play a game of whose life sucks worse ... I'll win, I always win.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.