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

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

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

I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.

I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.

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.

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.