Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.

Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

The two things that I thought were really interesting about this character [Bow] for me were that she actually loved her husband, and he loved her. The comedy was not coming from the fact that they hated each other. Which is what television couples are usually based on.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

When you feel happy, you look beautiful.