Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette
It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph. D. , I'll be a real doctor
I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems. ' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.
I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!
If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.
~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles. ~
Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.
I love telling stories, I love for someone to see something, and go, "Oh, wow, I've never thought of it that way. " Because I've had those moments in my life, where I go, "Oh, my God, I've never looked or approached this topic and had that insight or had that idea come to mind," to where it changes your life, it changes the way you see certain things. I love that. I think that's such a cool thing that we get to do by sharing stories, whether they're fiction or nonfiction.
At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.
They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.