That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.