Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

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

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

I always had something to think about or draw from, which as an actor is a gift. The beautiful thing about film is that it gets so much closer than stage. I love stage and that's what I started doing and it's a beautiful art form in of itself, but in film you can move your eyes to the side and somehow the audience can fill in the blanks of what you're thinking.

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.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

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.