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.

It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

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.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.