I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that