Melanie Scrofano

“You don't have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you're pregnant. Even if you're a lawyer, you can think, 'I'm scared to take time off because I don't want to get passed by.'”

“I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.”

“I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.”

“I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.”

“To be at the point in which I am playing characters that make such a difference to people and that really tell interesting and important stories, it took getting here to realize how important it is and how satisfying it is.”

“I have unreasonably strong leg muscles.”

“I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.”

“Hermione Granger is the mix of brain and heart that I've always wanted to be.”

“Twitter is important, but it's not more important than protecting your soul.”

“I love doing stuff in a harness. It's surprising what you can actually do. I'm reasonably coordinated, so I can do flips and the flipping kicks.”

“People are so used to men playing these amazing roles that they sometimes can't even see that there is no reason it has to be a man other than it was written that way - this is true for diversity in general.”

“There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.”

“As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.”

“I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.”

“There are certain things that I might not watch, and, in fact, some things that I've done I don't watch because it's not my cup of tea, I guess.”

“No such thing as food that's terrible for you, unless you binge on it.”

“I make unbelievable pizza.”

“I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.”

“My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.”

“Trust yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.”