I chase after inspiring stories.

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.

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.

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

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.

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.