I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.'

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.'

I wouldn’t have the life I have without television. I wouldn’t be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn’t be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

The business of living – that’s your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I don’t think I ever wanted fame.

You don’t choose the theatre; The theatre choses you.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it’s more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

If you’re cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I’ve ridden the crest of the wave of the women’s movement.

I mean, everybody’s star fades in every business; that’s just a natural part of life.