Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see acting as this incredible revealing of human nature and this means of telling our story, sharing our voice with the world. That's what acting is for me. It allows for people to experience things through the character, through the story.

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.