The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago

It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky.

I like to play women who blaze trails.

My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.