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" I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me. "

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" I don't think you should exploit your own pain. "

" The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. "

" Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. "

" 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. "

" With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. "

" I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person. "

" I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy. "

" You have to relish the challenge of television. "

" What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships. "

" The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it. "

" I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. "

" I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. "

" 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. "

" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "

" People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point. "

" For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. "

" What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. "

" I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me! "

" I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. "

" You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it. "

" I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long. "

" I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. "

" I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. "

" Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. "

" Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth. "

" 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. "

" I love 70's music. "

" My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. "

" 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. "