Rachel Brosnahan

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.