I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

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