I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

I suffer because I crave this and try to satisfy it.

Doing the right thing has power.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.