My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Some of my happiest moments have been dancing.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

I think people are made uncomfortable by uncensored expressions of emotion.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

I'm not a hunter.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.

From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.