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I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.

I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'