I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all the time and loved to talk shop with him, just loved it. And basically everything that I hold to be good and true and worthy, I learned in the theater. So not even just about the work, but just about life. Discipline, problem solving, creativity, how to get along with people.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

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

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

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.