It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.