Quotes from Annie Wersching

'24' is such a unique show. I've done a lot of television, but the real-time aspect - where we're shooting over 10 months and actually only doing one day - it's just crazy.

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

The standard that '24' is held to is higher than at other shows. A weaker episode of '24' would be an amazing episode for a lot of other shows.

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.

I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

I was a fan as well, and I knew it would be a difficult task to come into '24.'

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is losing my mom four years ago. I wouldn't even say that I've overcome it, really. I don't imagine that I ever will.

As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job.

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I'm a dancer.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

I was a diehard fan of '24' since the beginning. But being on the show, there was stuff I never thought about as a viewer, like, wow, it's going to be a single day for 10 months out of your life - you have to look exactly the same every day.

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!

No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

In '24,' you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.

A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.

'Bosch' itself - it has a huge fanbase already from the Michael Connelly books, so it was definitely intriguing because you know going in that there's all those people who will want to watch it, and I knew it was going to be a down-and-dirty, gritty, no-make-up part, so that was scary and yet so exciting.

'24' was so serious that it was nice to join 'NCIS' and even be able to smile once or twice.

It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.