With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.