As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

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.

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

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

There's something really unique about Orphan Black is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women’s stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.