Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

It's easy for people to come in when they think you're in a hot moment of your life, but it's really nice also for people who believe in your work for the long term and are there not when something hip's happening at that moment.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.