Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.