Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

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.

I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.

There's a real passing down in the theater, almost ad nauseam. You have to listen to older people talk about their experience, but it makes you very aware of what has come before you or what is coming after you - that you're a part of a link in a chain. It's not all about you.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

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

To be too knowing is a downfall.