I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Magic lies in the little things

When you're lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, you put the lid on as fast as you can.

God loves His people despite their sins and faults.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

If everyone is there to make a good film, everyone is down to earth, and everyone is there for the right reasons - the scale doesn't really matter I think.