Glam Pauley Perrette 

For someone so often confused with her goth-ish TV alter ego, Abby Sciuto, Pauley Perrette is the master of the quick-change. Whether she’s stunning in an evening gown on the roof of a Paris hotel or a lady in red in London’s poshest hotel or channeling Barbara “Babe” Paley in New York City, the star of

 easily sheds all vestiges of lab rat Abby. Click through the slideshow above for our favorite high-fashion photos of Perrette.

“I look like a scruffy 17-year-old boy because in my other life with my job, I’m in incredible costumes all day, and then I have the charities so I’m always at events doing red carpet stuff. So when I’m not working, it’s jeans and a hoodie.”

“Wherever I am, I just want to be back at my house, on the couch. But sometimes things that you’re scared of—like traveling—all you gotta do is do ’em and they’re not so scary anymore.”

“There are people out there who have me tattooed all over them -- me as Abby. Let’s just say there are a lot of Abby tattoos out there.”

“You get the clothes and then you can just escape—which is the drug of being an actor—because you don’t have to be yourself. It’s like a very polite form of suicide!”

On Babe Paley, the impeccably dressed wife of CBS founder William S. Paley—and a Vogue editor: “Whatever she did could become a trend, but it wasn’t only what she wore, it was the way she held herself and carried her fashion. The way she stood could start a trend!”

“I’ve been a poet since I was young—that’s my thing. But I also realized when I was young that you can’t be a poet. Nobody buys poetry and, like, hangs it on their wall. You gotta be something else, and then you can go back to it later.”

“That’s what I would do if I had another day: hit every church in Paris. All of them. It’s a lot of candle lighting! But especially in Paris, it’s a very peaceful place to be.”

“There has to be a separation. Playing Abby never has blurred with my own life — it can’t. She’s this lifesaving drug for me. ... When I’m playing Abby, none of my problems exist. So it’s my total escape route."

"Everybody asks me if I’m like (Abby). I always go, ‘No.’ And then they say, ‘You have tattoos.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, everyone has tattoos, don’t they?’"