Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

We're in an environment where everyone gets compartmentalized very quickly.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, 'It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better.' And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was going to stay that way for a long time.