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

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

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

I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

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