I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.
My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
Viola Davis, she does have a lot of TV acting jobs, and she's also a very, very accomplished stage actress.
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
I'm a Patti LuPone fan. She's incredible! I love Patti LuPone. I know people talk about her being difficult to work with sometimes. Whatever.
