My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

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

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.