When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I've gotten better and better. There's always little things that I think, "Oh, that could have been whatever," but most of the time I'm able to let go and watch like an audience member.

I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.