It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

I can't stand most things that I see.

I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.