I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.