As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.

When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.