AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.
Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.
I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
I like laughter around me.
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.
Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.
I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.
