LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.