I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting. I learned so much with Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt. They encouraged us to make creative choices with our characters.

But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.

As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as Rita [in Dexter]. All I had to do was speak. And there was such simplicity in that as an actor. With Debra, I was trying to put a square peg into a round hole, and it just didn't work, but in my mind, because I had to work so hard on it, I was, like, "Oh, this is acting!" But that's not acting.

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!