I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I'm the luckiest women because I do get to spend a lot of time with Gloria Steinem , and not necessarily talking about the show [ HBO's Ms.] - but talking whatever she's working on, and going to events with her.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.