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.

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 have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

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 you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

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.