If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.