I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I'm a dancer.

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

The biggest key for me to stay healthy is sleep.

As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.

I'm a huge '24'-head and have watched every episode of every season.

Portugal has amazing seafood with all the eyeballs staring back at you.

It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.

The first time I made a mold of my vampire teeth, I took pictures of that.

I was a fan as well, and I knew it would be a difficult task to come into '24.'

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.

I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.

The pace is so fast in summer stock. In college shows, there is more time for rehearsals.

'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.

Different cities have different vibes to them, and New York is such a huge, thriving metropolis.

There's really no point in letting failure get the best of you. Better to just let it go and move on.

No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

Luckily with '24,' for the most part, each moment is so intense, and your objective is all about that moment right then.

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

It's been a pretty amazing experience, getting to go from 'Bosch' to 'The Vampire Diaries' back-to-back, with a little 'Castle' in between.

The standard that '24' is held to is higher than at other shows. A weaker episode of '24' would be an amazing episode for a lot of other shows.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

'24' is such a unique show. I've done a lot of television, but the real-time aspect - where we're shooting over 10 months and actually only doing one day - it's just crazy.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.

'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

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