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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way.

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.