My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.