It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there's something to being named Kate, I don't know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited to study journalism in college. I love editorials and documentaries. All of that came from being given the opportunity to lose myself in good writing when I was a kid.

I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.