I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.
I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.
My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.
I was sitting in a caf in London with my husband and baby daughter when my phone rang with the news! I feel so incredibly lucky and honored to be nominated, and so grateful to be part of the family that is The Killing.
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.
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.
I like laughter around me.
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
Zombies are the new vampires.
I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
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.
I'd lean more toward werewolves. Wolves are cool.
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.
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.
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.
The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.
A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.
The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.
