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

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

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

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

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.