I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.