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.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not ­having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.