We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.