Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.