I never felt safe. In high school, acting is what I did to stay sane. It wasn't about showing off; it was about revealing parts of myself that I couldn't reveal anyplace else.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.