If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make a movie. To see these people come together, band in unity, to create this thing that almost doesn't exist. It only exists because it's projected on a screen, but other than that, it's an illusion.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.