In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.