Occupation: Tv Actor Birth: July 24, 1982
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where the….
Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my part. It's only recently tha….
I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me..
To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a we….
Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, t….
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity..
I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to b….
When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll hav….
Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible….
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And….
At 15, you have to decide if you're going to go into professional dancing and really pursue it. I just a) knew that I couldn't stop acting, and b) I ….
I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a t….
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt….
Twitter scares me. I think it's so amazing, like the internet in general, because of the connection that it gives people. But the concept that one 14….
I love baseball games. I got to go to World Series last year. I watch almost every Cubs game. If I can't watch, I get the updates on my phone. I don'….
If I'm not like my characters, I think just it's like a musician liking to play certain pieces of music rather than others. I just have more satisfac….
I feel like women still deal with dressing appropriately for the office. It's by choice - you don't want to sexualize yourself too much. You want to ….
I'm a champion napper. For the past decade, I've taken a nap at lunch on set. I have a noise machine app on my phone, headphones - and that's key. Th….
I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought i….
She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from ….
Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's wh….