I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.