I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.