The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.