I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
Living in California, everyone learns to adapt their actor or actress within.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.
I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.
In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.
I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.
It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.
Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.
I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.
As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.
I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.
I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress who absolutely believes in exposing herself.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
