Rachel Brosnahan

“If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.”

“Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'”

“I can finally say I'm a professional actress.”

“Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.”

“I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.”

“I really love period pieces.”

“I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!”

“Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.”

“It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.”

“I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.”

“Home is where your rump rests.”

“It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'”

“Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.”

“No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.”

“Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.”

“I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.”

“I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.”