“I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don’t already exist, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.”

Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, “How did you do this? How can we catch you?”

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

Where I grew up, acting wasn’t really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

An acting teacher once told me, ‘Greet everything with yes… Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.’

Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

I’m a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I’m ninety, and they won’t need to paste my face with make-up.

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it’s something I love.