Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

If your career is not predicated on just your physical beauty, you're able to project a sophistication. You can take sophisticated to your grave. You can be that worldly woman, that woman who looks beautiful dressed up.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.