I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

I'm afraid of flying.

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

A voice of one insulted by injustice will make others to be delivered from the same injustice.

Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.

Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

All I've got to do today is smile.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!