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" I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. "

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" I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level. "

" I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point. "

" There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else. "

" The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it. "

" I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' "

" I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them. "

" I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune. "

" In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. "

" I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy. "

" It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to. "

" I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids. "

" I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. "

" I do not cook. "

" It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself. "

" I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me. "

" Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody. "

" I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. "

" My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? "

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" My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing. "

" And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that. "

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" I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted. "

" The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern. "