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" Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend. "

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" I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible. "

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" Once, I started cheering for the wrong team. I was hot, and I heard 'Touchdown!' and I started doing high kicks, and I looked around and nobody else was cheering. "

" I love guns. I love shooting guns. "

" When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally. "

" I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' "

" My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out. "

" I'm a girl in boy's clothing. I like to get a little rough. I prefer mud to makeup. That's me in a nutshell. "

" To sit next to Walter Hill, and to be able to exchange ideas back and forth, and for him to be able to tell you that he likes what you're doing - I don't know. I kind of pinch myself. "

" I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show. "

" It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery. "

" I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times. "

" I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track. "

" To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann. "

" I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute. "

" My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing. "

" NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic. "

" The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow. "

Surround Yourself

" Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from 'I Dream of Jeannie' on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me. "

" I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. "

" You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college. "

" I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque. "

" My views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean, I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand. "

" Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids? "

" Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role. "

" You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play. "

" My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry. "

" My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him. "

" I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy. "

" I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life. "