Morena Baccarin

“I understand people are curious, but it doesn't matter. My personal life is my personal life.”

“I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.”

“Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!”

“I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.”

“I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.”

“I'm not saying that people should believe in a specific thing or a specific way, but if everyone has the knowledge they need to have, then they can make their own decisions. That's the key thing: to have the information.”

“You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.”

“I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.”

“My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum!”

“I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.”

“I feel like I go in on a lot of things that I want to be going in for.”

“That's the charm of Deadpool. He's charmingly annoying, and he'll be the first to admit that.”

“My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.”

“My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It's a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you're lucky to have a career, it's not easy. So you just want to protect your kids from the pain of rejection.”

“You go on a million auditions anyway as an actor, and one out of a hundred, you get. It's a hard life, but you can't really think about it that way.”

“I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with her in Brazil. I would play with set dolls. And I loved it.”

“With a toddler, chilling out is hard to do.”

“When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.”

“If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust.”

“I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.”