Mireille Enos

“I like laughter around me.”

“I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.”

“When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.”

“I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.”

“I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.”

“It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.”

“I don't know how people chew gum all day long.”

“My mother is French, my father is Texan.”

“People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.”

“I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.”

“When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.”

“I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.”

“When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.”

“I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.”

“I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.”

“I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.”

“The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.”

“My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.”

“I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.”

“I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.”