I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought it was the springboard for chatting about the show, because in England, that's what you do. So I walk in, and I'm looking around, and Jimmy Burrows said, "What are you looking at? You're not here to have a conversation; you're here to audition."

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

I was not a womanizer; I didn't date a lot. If I kissed somebody, I was basically married from that point on.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.