My parents wanted me to go to law school.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town.

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Action and becoming are one.

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

When you walk up five flights of stairs at four in the morning, there's definitely a hooker involved.