There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.