“I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the f...” — Stephanie Beatriz Quote

“I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with 'Seinfeld' all the time. He did it with 'Colombo', too, set the scene.”

“I feel like my agents are really amazing and smart.”

“The playing ground is so uneven, and there have been so many straight characters for such a long time, and so many gay actors that have had to hide their sexuality to get the parts they want to play.”

“I know all the words to 'I'm on a Boat.'”

“I used to be on dance team in high school; it was called drill team in Texas. And when I started doing theater sophomore year, I had to make a decision which thing I was gonna follow. It was a big shift because I sort of had all these friends on dance squad, and when I started to do theater, my whole identity shifted.”

“At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'”

“There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of tea.”

“It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.”

“Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.”

“But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.”

“I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'”