There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant

I wish that I could write. I think that's a wonderful outlet for an artist. You are ultimately in control. Your fate is not determined by outside influences. You can write wherever you are. I don't think I have the talent.