I was a smoker for about 20 years.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.