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I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you’re going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don’t pay you for.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in ‘The Practice’ than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there’s anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn’t allowed to laugh. You can’t get addicted to getting the laugh.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.