Acting is pretty much my whole life.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
And now, since I've started doing comedy, I'm completely typed as a comedy actress.
Anyway, Brooklyn Bridge was amazing. Every episode was like a little movie set in Brooklyn in the '50's.
But on stage I still get to do a lot of dramatic work.
I can play a woman 20 or a woman 35 with the right hair and makeup.
I did another show, All is Forgiven, where I played a struggling writer, and we got raves from Time magazine and others saying that it was the quality show of the year.
I do love a long drive. I must say. I love being driven someplace.
I don't feel good about taking somebody else's life if I don't have to.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.
I don't put together cars, I put together people.
I feel happy and free and very consumed.
I have fun at work.
I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
I make my relationships at work.
I mean, Taxi got canceled. How could Taxi get canceled?
I mean, you can find bad writing in a little play or a tiny Off Broadway theater.
I might be known for certain things, but I've played crazy, even psychotic, roles on stage, screen and television.
I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
I think it is slightly frustrating, because there was a long period of time where no one would even see me for a comedic role because I had done several tragic characters in a row, like the character in The Last Detail.
I think those differences between us as actors fed the relationship between Gopal and Mrs. Shaw.
I'd been studying acting since I was fourteen, having begun my training along with academic at the New York Professional Children's School.
I'm very nervous when I work, and when you're nervous, you have a short fuse.
In New York, I was continually bouncing in and out of auditions.
In The Lemon Sisters my character doesn't sing very well.
It can't become obsolete. As long as a writer writes something, and an actor is willing to stand before a director and work on a piece.
It is fantastic that actors can create change.
It makes me happy to construct these people, to build another world.
It's difficult not knowing what's around the corner.
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
It's somehing I really admire about my mother. She loves to be a student.
It's very hard to remain a student in life.
Jack prefers the actresses with whom he works to be on the short side.
Lillian is only me, and I'm only Lillian.
My face is my career.
My mother, who is a musician and not unfamiliar with the devious ways of showbusiness, decided to play it cool.
People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
Sometimes those are the roles you run to, if for no other reason than to test yourself, to go there.
That's really a gift - to make people feel that someone believes in you that way, you really can do anything.
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
The main thing that I think most people are unaware of is the amount of dramatic work I've done.
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
When I started working on Taxi is when I flipped over to comedy.
Whereas, sometimes you can be in trouble and you look at the director and you know he or she does not have a clue, so you're going to have to burrow yourself out.
Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
Yes, I just finished a play that Beth Henley wrote and directed called Control Freaks.
You know, when I got back from L.A., I went to see the piece Bill Irwin was in, Full Moon.
When she was young, Carol's father had a job with the World Bank, which took the family around the world. Carol lived in France and Haiti before moving to New York City at age eight.
Carol's role as Simka in Taxi won her an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy, Variety or Music Series Emmy Award for the 1982-1983 season.
Carol's first role in theater was in the off-Broadway and national touring company productions of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1966.
Carol's father, Michael Kane, was an architect. Her mother, Joy Kane was a jazz singer.
Carol was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for role as a Jewish newlywed in "Hester Street" (1975).
When Carol was 12 years old her parents got a divorce.
Following a stint in the touring company of the musical, "Wicked," Carol joined the Broadway production in 2006 in the role of Madame Morrible.
Carol is a vegetarian.
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