The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes, ’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

more you drink more you want

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.