I love dogs because they're so adaptable.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.