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When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

Many times, I have heard people saying that they don't like to work with their wife or husband, but to me, it is a plus. To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

When you're filming for seven months or six months at a time, you bond with people hugely.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.

Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.