KERRY BISHE

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

Keeping secrets is hard.

When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.

For a long time, I really blithely walked around in the world imagining that gender didn't matter any more and behaving like I was on equal footing with other people. And I think, for a long time, it was easy to live in the world that way.

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.

I'd love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

I don't wanna be in a show that's salacious just for the sake of getting viewers.

I'm not interested in political theater.

It's a whole series of accidents that makes a show into a hit. A show can be fantastic and still not be a hit. You just have to hit the Zeitgeist at the right moment, and there are so many factors that you're not in control of.

I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn't one of those is kind of a bummer.

The kinds of people that we see on television making science are old white guys with crazy hair, and those aren't the only people making science.