I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.