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 can’t worry about whether roles will be there for me when I’m older.

I’m really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

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 don’t watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I’m useless.

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.

If you’re going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you’re there to tell a story.

At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I’ve gotten better and better. There’s always little things that I think, “Oh, that could have been whatever,” but most of the time I’m able to let go and watch like an audience member.

It’s very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.