As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

I would love to do Broadway again.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.