If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

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.

Something that I believe is that you're as sick as your secrets. The more open you're able to be, the more you're able to share even the most uncomfortable aspects of yourself, the healthier you'll be.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.