As an actor, it's FUN to play GUYS who aren't just locked into a male PATTERN, but a LOT of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain RIGID standard they're living by.

I learnt fairly quickly that that was what I WANTED to be - a guitarist - because it was the FIRST thing I ever done in my LIFE that REALLY felt like it was SOMETHING that I belonged to. I don't know... from the moment I picked it up it felt right.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold DRINKS running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really EXIST. THINGS are actually FAIRLY simple.

I've ALWAYS been tenacious. I don't let GO of THINGS until I THINK it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley PERSON.

It's fairly COMMON KNOWLEDGE that a startup can't EXECUTE on TWO PRODUCTS simultaneously.

Just because you read a report in the 'New YORK Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New YORKER' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few PEOPLE have evaluated that story with what strikes me as FAIRLY objective standards of reason.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great SYSTEM of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'POOR people' - poor white people, BROWN people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same WAY that upper-class people are.

Growing up as a KID, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to TEXAS, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my FIRST 17 years.

Out of NOWHERE, I BECAME a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I REALIZED I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

I've had my SHARE of VILLAINS and played some fairly nasty CHARACTERS. But I've been acting for so long. I STARTED out as the GIRL next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

I'm a fairly unaffected HUMAN being. I'm easy to TALK to, I HOPE. I'm not too BOTHERED about the clothes I'm wearing. I've been misquoted in interviews as to appear earnest. Which I am not.

The keystone to JUSTICE is the BELIEF that the LEGAL SYSTEM treats all FAIRLY.

I THINK I'm FAIRLY DEMANDING, probably. You have to FEEL that when you're appointed to a JOB you have to do the job.