“I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.”
“I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.”
“The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.”
“People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.”
“When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'”
“You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.”
“I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.”
“I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.”
“I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.”
“I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'”