My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.