Woke up this morning to the incredible news that I was nominated for an Emmy, and a shower full of dog poop. Apparently my dog is so excited, she has explosive diarrhea. I truly could not be more thankful to the Emmy voters for including me in this brilliant company of extraordinary women. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean up an enormous amount of dog poop out of my shower. Yay!

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.