My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.