I'm, like, a tiny musical theater fairy.

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.

I'd never wear something that's too generic.

It's excruciating to be away from your child.

I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.

Step outside your comfort zone because that's the only way you're going to grow.

When it comes to fashion, I never wear makeup and always stick to black clothing.

I loved working on 'Grimm.' The entire cast and crew were wonderful and welcoming.

Filming with Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, it just blew my mind.

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' she lost it. She was so excited.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.

Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

Every time I've talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, 'The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.'

I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.

I'm definitely a homebody, so when I have an emotional day on set, I have to go home, take a bath, and go to bed.

I'm realizing that a lot of people don't really care what happens to other people as long as it doesn't affect them.

My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.

I grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing up.

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for TV or film.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

When you're on set, you're constantly surrounded by people - talking to people, being touched by people. So I like to just spend time with myself.

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I followed in his footsteps.

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don't want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you're the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school - it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

For some people, makeup is their war paint; that's putting their best foot forward. Others feel better with no makeup. It's so personal - who are we to judge?

There's absolutely no part of what I do that my dad doesn't have the utmost pride in. It doesn't matter what the job is - he's... supportive. Same with my mother.

None of the atrocities in 'The Handmaid's Tale' are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.

I use Garnier's micellar water to take off my makeup. I love the Mario Badescu Aloe and Rosewater spray. And I'm one of those people who's a sucker for a hot towel.

'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

When I went in for the 'Orange' audition, I was just doing what my agency told me to do. Truth be told, I wasn't prepared. I didn't even know how to prepare. I couldn't remember my lines.

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