I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time.
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.
It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.
Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
I live like a crazy old pack rat.
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
Actors, they come and go, you know.
Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
I don't pay attention to the ratings.
