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" I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting. "

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" It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into. "

" I like laughter around me. "

" When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies. "

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" I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person. "

" When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story. "

" A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people. "

" My mother is French, my father is Texan. "

" AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them. "

" People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level. "

" My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station. "

" I'm a black belt in tae kwon do. "

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" I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded. "

" Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges. "

" I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered. "

" I don't know how people chew gum all day long. "

" The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper. "

" I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it. "

" I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements. "