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.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

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.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

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.

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