“The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.”

It’s been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of.

Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

You don’t always have the time to do that. You learn very quickly, I think, how essential it is to come in with the strongest choice that you have.

That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.

There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn’t in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you’re waiting and waiting and waiting,

If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,

I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise.

There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I’m not good enough and that I don’t deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we’re seeing the demand pool beginning to grow.

I don’t necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don’t necessarily have access to.

Those who divorce aren’t necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

When you’re trying to make people believe in what you want to do, you have to be really careful to figure out how you’ll make it work, how to maintain the momentum that you’re getting without sacrificing much. It’s a complete learning process.