Elisabeth Moss

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted.

Women know that we're not just strong. We're not just vulnerable. We are not just attractive or not attractive. We are many things at once, and we're able to see into that complexity.