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.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.