Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.