Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

I just never get into trouble. It's not my thing.

Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe place and it can happen with a stranger or a best friend.

As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.