At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.

I got a job as a coat check girl at a nightclub - this was in my first few months of being in L.A.

In San Francisco, I lived in Bayview-Hunters Point.

I don't have any qualms about selling out.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.

Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary.

When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Pixar has the integrity to not rush.

I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.