You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.' I said, 'If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.