I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

I'm so not a financial person.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.