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.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

It's gross. We use real brains - I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

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