Actress

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

Acting is what happens on the way.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.'

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.