You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

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.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper's Batman.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.