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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

I was the ladies' man in school. I always had friends; people looked up to me.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn't part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I'm supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.