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

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

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

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 think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.

I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.

Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?