You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

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.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

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.

Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.