Up In Smoke, Woman Playing Guitar (1978)
"I wasn't in it. That's not me. But I like the credit. That's their story and I'm sticking to it. Just make sure nobody ever takes it out! I'll die. It's too cool."
Diner, Beth Schreiber (1982)
"I was supposed to go to a Broadway play and my agent strongly recommended that I go do the movie instead. Jerry Weintraub, who produced Diner, fought to get me cast. So I wasn't like, 'Oh my God, I got a movie.' I didn't feel that. I had a great off-Broadway career and I was doing television movies regularly. But once I auditioned for Diner, that was when I realized the specialness of it. I had a great time. It was a fun job and I made a lifelong friend in Mickey Rourke."
Tender Mercies, Sue Anne (1983)
"Getting Tender Mercies was a very big deal for me because of Robert Duvall. I was very actor-centric. It was the defining reason I would take a role, so playing opposite Robert Duvall in my second movie was a job I remember I really had to fight for. That character was supposed to be 18, and I was 28. I lied about my age; we all said I was 21. That was a big deal for me getting that movie."
The Princess Who Had Never Laughed, Princess Henrietta (1986)
"In the '80s, Shelley Duvall had a TV series that was on PBS called Faerie Tale Theatre. She would take well-known fairy tales and she would rewrite them, put a little spin on it. She would cast it and shoot it. There are brilliant ones, and every actor alive did one. It was one of the first times in my career that I was aware of an actress being proactive and taking charge of her career and becoming a producer. Mine [starred] Howard Hesseman, Howie Mandel, and Sofia Coppola. Sofia was maybe 11 at the time. I played a princess who was locked in a tower by a strict father and I wanted out. It was fun."
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Waitress At North Star Cafe (1998)
"I don't even know why they list this. I had a three-second cameo in the movie. So did Cameron Diaz. It winds up following you around like you've actually had a substantial role in the film. I was doing some event somewhere recently and I was speaking and that was mentioned in my credits. I was like, Really?"
Drop Dead Gorgeous, Annette Atkins (1999)
"It was an interesting thing. It had a different director originally, and I was, at one point, going to play the Kirstie Alley part. When things changed and a different director came on and there were script adjustments, I just liked Annette. I liked that character a lot. And I had a great time with Kirsten Dunst, who was such a little girl at the time."
Ocean's Thirteen, Abigail Sponder (2007)
"After not working for a few years, Steven Soderbergh putting me in Ocean's Thirteen was very meaningful for me. It was exactly what you would expect: the most fun. It was very easy. There was no drama. Everybody was very relaxed. Steven is everything you want in a director. He's got this ability to do all of his jobs on set well, and he expects you to do your job. There's a mutual respect and an enormous amount of trust. And it's a lot of fun to make a big studio movie. It really is, every now and then. Just being on the set that was three stories high and had working slot machines, you feel like you're in a big Hollywood movie, and you are."
The New Normal, Jane Forrest (2012-'13)
"[A network series] wasn't something I was looking for or had considered at the time, especially one that shot in LA. It was a very different experience than what I had been used to. I'd never done a series before. There were nice, familial things about it with Andrew Rannells. We had been on Broadway together and then both found ourselves in this TV show. Let's just say it wasn't an easy 'yes' for me. It didn't work out, for whatever reasons."
Happyish, Dani Kirschenbloom (2015)
"I wanted to do this show because of [creator] Shalom Auslander's writing and Steve Coogan. It's very different than The New Normal. One really is a half hour sitcom for a network, which is not say I think that's a bad thing because I don't in theory. But I responded to the scripts of Happyish and to Steve. That was a no brainer. And it shoots in New York. I don't want to die in LA. I don't want to spend my third act in L.A., so that is something I think about now."