You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

I just want to keep having the courage to raise the bar for myself, and to keep striving for excellence in artistic integrity and public service. And to continue to challenge myself to move outside of my comfort zone, personally and professionally.

I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.