I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.
I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.
When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.
Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.
For a long time, I really blithely walked around in the world imagining that gender didn't matter any more and behaving like I was on equal footing with other people. And I think, for a long time, it was easy to live in the world that way.
You do a straight play for three months, four months, maybe. It's so brief. And then you're on to the next thing. I loved that. I love that rhythm and that pace.
Doing a one-person play feels like you've just discovered you had a superpower.
I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.
I'm not interested in political theater.
I think it's a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.
I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.
If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.
I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.
It's more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn't that they have to be good people. It's that they have to be people.
The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.
