The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I grew up in a Christian home. The strictness comes with religion in general. Whether you grew up Jewish or Orthodox Jewish or Muslim, there are certain rules and regulations. But my parents instilled in me the importance of defining God for yourself.

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

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.

When you're breastfeeding a child, you don't have the same retention as you do when you're not.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.