In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.

I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.

I did an after-school special as my first big thing. It was starring Butterfly McQueen. She was the name. But the real star of it was Robbie Rist, who was that little blond kid who looked like John Denver.