It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.

I've been around the block.

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.