I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

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.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg

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'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

I don't want anyone to tell me something.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.