The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Faith is important to me.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.