You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.
Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.
I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.
I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.
That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.
I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.
Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.
I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
