Doing the right thing has power.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

The basic laws of good acting are the same, but everything about the experience is different-your job responsibility, the time you spend on it.

Doing the right thing has power.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.