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Michelle: (on skydiving) I love it. I love everything about it. It's something I do by myself. It's an escape from Hollywood for me. There's a certain amount of freedom in jumping out of a plane -- you feel like you have control. Your whole life is in your own hands.
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Michelle: I was a little out of control as a teenager, and I did some bad things. I found acting to be that outlet that allowed me to express my anger and my pain and my hurt and my fears without having to do anything bad, without having to be bad, or do anything bad.
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Michelle: I am really comfortable with sexuality and nudity. I think it's just kind of the way that I was raised, just really liberal. And I am just comfortable with myself. My mom did a good job. I've got great self-esteem.
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Michelle: Heartache sucks. It's not fun but everybody's gone through it at least once, but you find that over time you grow and you get on.
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Michelle: I'm a person who's pretty honest, and more than anything else, I'm a really honest person. I'm really open. I don't like secrets. I think it takes too much energy and effort to lie about stuff. So it's a lot easier just to tell it like it is, and I've always been that way.
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Michelle: (about onscreen chemistry) I don't know if it's so much a physical attraction. There are people you meet who you automatically connect with, they get you and you get them. And there are people you meet and you have nothing in common with.
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Michelle:
(on relating to her character on "Tell Me You Love Me") Her jealousy and the problems of fidelity were things that I'd experienced in my past relationships that ultimately damaged them and made me go through a whole emotional roller coaster – trying to find out what I really wanted and issues I needed to deal with within myself.
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Michelle: A lot of sex is unsexy. You know that elderly people have sex, but it's shocking to see it. And they talk dirty!
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Michelle:
(on her sex scenes in "Tell Me You Love Me") We tried to do it as authentic as possible, but we were not having sex. This question is coming to me tenfold now. I'm actually kind of flattered. If you really believe I'm having sex, then damn, I need an Emmy.