I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
The thing about death is that it's honest.
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
You have to relish the challenge of television.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
