Occupation: Actress Birth: January 31, 1977
I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to b….
I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school and that single sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women an….
I have a deep, deep love for sneakers..
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. A….
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing….
To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of ….
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character..
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled wit….
I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enou….
I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist..
I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined..
Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little inde….
You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work..
I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transfor….
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is con….
My deepest desire is to create a world where there's room for all of us, where no matter who you are, you get to wake up in the morning and know that….
I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in mo….
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and….
My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wa….
Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support….
I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person..