This isn't just an unhappy planet. Sometimes very good things can happen.

At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

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

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 actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

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