We have inadvertantly created the perfect working environment. They make me want to be better than last time.

I’m just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

That’s the difference between she and I. I’m very happy not knowing, but she would prefer to have an idea of what’s ahead. She also knows that in dealing with him you take what you...

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

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.

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...

You get to follow the same character through a lot of the same ups and downs that you go through in your own life. I can’t imagine any place else where you get to do...

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn’t know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn’t...

I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.

I don’t know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it’s got to be something – it’s a very special kind of talent.

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 spent a long time doing independent films, and I?d like to think I?m not getting cast because of the show, but because I?m right for the role.

I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

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.

The Sopranos. I would never want to know.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I’m a better mother when...

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...