Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.
There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
I have nieces and nephews that I love hanging out with, and they think I'm the biggest goof on the planet.
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.
I joined the Twitterverse in the second season of 'Dollhouse.' Friends that I admire were already in that space, like Kevin Smith.
Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.
I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something.
My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.
I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.
I think people hear and feel the genuine nature of my passion for the causes. Specifically, with the non-profit in Uganda, my mother is the president, and she was an African politics professor for almost 50 years, so I think people know that I align myself with people who know what they're talking about.
I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
