From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.

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

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

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

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.