Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

The most bizarre demographics come up to me. Men in their 50s come up to me and are like, "Alison is my favorite. I hated her at first, and now I love her." I don't know what that says about people's psychology.

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.