“[…] if you care for somebody, you’re going to have to kill for them, and again, she’s just not sure she’s in that place.” - Melissa McBride [x]

“Also, does she want to go with him, or does she want to call him back? Or does she want him to just stay a little longer? There’s all sorts… that moment she turns around on the porch when he’s leaving is just loaded. There’s all kinds of stuff going on there.” - Melissa McBride [ x ]

“It was one of those days where we were both really excited to go to work. Before the first take, we tried to stay away from each other a little bit, to keep it fresh, we did a rehearsal and the doors opened and we both just burst into tears. I think everyone on set was crying that day. We have such a rapport, there’s a lot of Norman in those scenes, there’s a lot of Melissa in those scenes. She’s one of my best friends, so every time an episode comes on we’re texting throughout the whole thing to each other. I don’t know, they have a tight thing.

“I’ve thought about this - I think she’s going to go, ‘Man, I knew you were lying.’ I think she knows him so well, she’s going to say, ‘I just let you lie.’ I don’t think she would hold it against him, I think she would know the reasons he didn’t tell her.” 

“There’s such a deep, special place in my heart for Carol and Daryl. They’ve come such a long way together and through some very similar histories… just watching them both struggle on their own, even as a viewer, with what they’ve had to go through and how Daryl is coping with this world, coping with himself and getting closer to other people. I love his character and in the story, there’s such a deep place in Carol’s heart for him for all those reasons – and of course, I love working with Norman.

“I’m so glad Carol is aware of what’s going on now. She had an inkling that something was up when Daryl came to the Kingdom. She was trying to save what was left of herself and that put Daryl in a horrible position to save the truth and not share that with her. I remember shooting that scene when Morgan tells Carol what happened and the first thing that came into my mind was Daryl sitting at that table over to my right, telling me what he told me, and I just broke. The heartache and what it meant for Daryl to keep that to himself — it broke her heart that he felt he had to do that, I think.” 

“When Morgan reveals what happened, she immediately remembers [Daryl] at the table saying what he said and realizes why he said what he said … there’s complete and total understanding, and if not a little guilt on her part for putting him in that merciful position to do what he did and tell her that everyone was okay.” - Melissa McBride [x]