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I loved playing Darla.
I love being challenged physically, as an actress.
To us marriage is first, everything else is second.
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
During the rehearsal process I got thrown off the horse.
I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.
It's very exciting to have fan response and fan reaction.
It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.
Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.
I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.
The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.
I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.
There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.
[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel.
The fans are just as passionate about the projects as we are about making them.
When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.
I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.
I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.
But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.
[Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] pushed me out of my comfort zone [in Buffy The Vampire Slayer ].
I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".
I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.
I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.
Working with Dario [Argento] was a lot of fun. He's a larger-than-life character, and with an Italian accent.
I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.
I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.
I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.
[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!
I loved working on that show [Defiance]. I mean, that show was brutal. We worked long, brutal hours in really brutal weather.
I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen.
You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.
That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.
I've had a career where I've bounced around a lot between different genres, and I feel very lucky and very blessed that that's happened to me.
[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.
I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.
[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.
[ Angel series] really taught me that acting is not just about being emotionally challenged. It's about being physically challenged. And I enjoyed both aspects of that.
I'd been doing comedy up that point and hadn't really done a lot of drama, and then all of a sudden he casts me as a 400-year-old vampire from hell. It was, like, "What?!"
[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].
That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.