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 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.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

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 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.

Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world.

When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.

Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.