“In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don't know when I h...” — Ann Dowd Quote

“In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don't know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by 'The Leftovers' in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss.”

“I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.”

“I have a family and children I adore and a husband who's wonderful.”

“When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.”

“Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters.”

“It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.”

“This is going to sound ridiculous, but I read in an interview with Lil Wayne that he recorded a mixtape of something like 50 straight minutes of him rapping all of his material because he felt like he could never move on to the next phase of his musical exploration if he didn't get it down on tape.”

“If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.”

“Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.”

“I am very inspired by the exploration of space via private means.”

“There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.”

“I feel a lot like Magellan. You know - the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.”