When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

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

I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

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

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.