I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.

I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.

I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.