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I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.