Small gestures can have a big impact.

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

Do what you love doing.

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.