Abigail Spencer

“I'm drawn to scenes in movies where you just see characters turning off lights in a room or putting the groceries away; it's like, 'I understand that.' We all have to get ready for bed, and we all do it in a different way, and yet it's all strangely familiar and strangely human.”

“Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.”

“The majority of my diet is probably vegetables, but I'm not a vegetarian or vegan.”

“I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.”

“I'm so thankful that I got to travel from a relatively young age.”

“I prefer active vacations. I really like the adventure aspect of it, and I also like a trip with intentions, where something will be gained on the other side of it. But I also like the option to just be there.”

“I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.”

“I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.”

“When I was twenty-six, I had my son.”

“It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.”

“I'm a big fan of teachers.”

“I'm always trying to get in water. It is the life source. It's extremely easy to dehydrate working 14 hours a day and on my feet all the time.”

“I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.”

“When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's very interesting.”

“I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture.”

“Meghan Markle is one of the loveliest human beings on the planet, in the world.”

“I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan.”

“Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision.”

“I worked for 10 years before 'Mad Men,' and what was great is that when people saw my work, I was just loving working, so it wasn't about anything else than that.”

“There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing.”