The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.
I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'
If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.
There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.
Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.
I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.
All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller.
My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.
My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.
My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.
I've only been to one concert in my life.
I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.
I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.
The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.
