I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

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 just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.