I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.