I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

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.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

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