I just figured, "If I can do theater, agents will find their way."

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.