Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.