I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I’m very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren’t aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and...

I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I’m trying to be 16.

I’m one of those people you can tell ‘no’ a million different ways, and I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say ‘yes.’ People have...

One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me.

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I’m a bum.

It’s nice to be thought of as attractive and all of that. On the other hand, it curtails you somewhat, too. They won’t let me read for ‘West Wing,’ just to play, you know, a...

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.

The business of Hollywood, if you don’t have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out… If you take what those people and that social structure think of you –...

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know – teachers loved me, straight-A student.

I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I’ve never played a bimbo. I’ve always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not...

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I’d love to bring...

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my...

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go...

What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what...

I’m not a political animal, I’m a curious animal.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

I’m about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn’t get you very far, because there weren’t too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn’t be both.

When I’ve got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I’m still that same little kid under there....