In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease and the same number are getting the disease each year. My main goal was to learn and call attention to some of the things that were happening.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened.