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I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.