Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

I think there are great roles for women in television because there is time to allow those characters to evolve. Even if you're the wife or the girlfriend or whatever it is that we women are, playing those things on TV, they are much more drawn out and there are greater arcs for the role. The roles are more integral to the complexity of the story.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

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.

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.