There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.