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

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.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

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.

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.