If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities.

When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met.

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

My mom has always said that you don't know what love is until you've had a child.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.