My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

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

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.