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I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.