Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're not hot, or talented, ... Look who won!

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

This is the icing on the cake. Nine wonderful years on Everybody Loves Raymond , and to finish it off like this is wonderful.

Wow, this is the icing on the cake.

That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I know the import of the relationship of one to the other. We as a society, I don't think, are ready to see a woman. ... It's just very hard for me to imagine that.