You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.