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.

The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

I think some of the most important things we read about other people occurs from being able to read their faces and their eyes and their body and those kinds of things.

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

I think when things happen in our lives that we can't truly understand why they destroy us, it's because we can't truly understand or communicate it to anyone else. And that is what is destructive - you can't communicate it to the people that you love and it makes things deteriorate. Or you're hiding from yourself, or you're hiding from somebody else, and that was really fascinating to me... that life isn't like the movies and you can't always point to one thing and explain why you did things that ended up hurting you.