Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.