Keri Russell

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who's been around pregnant women knows that it's not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you're angry and you have tantrums.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.