Actress

When I got my role on 'Seinfeld,' the show was already huge. I was so nervous on my first day. I remember meeting everyone and holding my script and just shaking.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.

I think theater probably remains my favorite, sort of where my soul lives. It takes a lot of discipline, and you have to show up eight shows a week, no matter how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally - there's nobody to cut around that: you've got to tell the story yourself for two hours.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

There are so many more roles for men than there are for women.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

I really did like 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' But not seeing women represented in that world, it definitely had less resonance for me.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

It would be a lot of fun to play some comedy.

My mom told me I could do anything I want, be anyone I want. I believed it. And so I want my daughters to as well.