The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

I think the teams biggest struggle is remaining a team. It's kinda like a puzzle, If one piece of the puzzle is missing then the puzzle can't be completed. Every team member plays an important part.

Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.

To me, giving back is so important. It makes others feel good which then in return makes me feel good.

You can't really explain to anyone the experience onset, you actually have to see it to understand what we're all going through. Some days we can be on set 15 - 17 hrs. Plus then there's training.

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.

My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layer of frailty men want to be good and want be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.

Don't worry, Rickey, you're still the best.