It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.