I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

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.

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.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.