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 mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

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.

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.

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.