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In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.