In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all.... Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks' and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

I feel lucky because most of my friends aren't married. So I don't feel that, 'oh, step on it, you're thirty.'

It's a different thing with cable TV. You don't have to have your characters be lovely again by the end of the episode. And in this era of the male antiheroes on cable TV, you don't even need to make them likable; you just need to make them compelling. As opposed to film, where it's still those basic tropes of good versus evil. But for women, I don't think that has been widely seen yet.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.