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.

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.

My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.