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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.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.