What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.