Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.