I do get annoyed with myself. I wish I was more focused and pushy as an actress. I suppose I should be out there more saying `I want to do this role` or `Get me seen by this person.` But that`s just not me.

Certainly, since Anthony Edwards left ER" (1994), I would say that my work on the show has diminished in terms of the challenges I face as an actress and what I am getting to do creatively on the show. If it continues to be diminished, then I am not going to be very happy".

It`s funny. I`m now in a more senior position and yet those feelings of sheer utter excitment of going to work just don`t exist any more. - on ER

"I do get annoyed with myself. I wish I was more focused and pushy as an actress. I suppose I should be out there more saying `I want to do this role` or `Get me seen by this person.` But that`s just not me."

"It`s funny. I`m now in a more senior position and yet those feelings of sheer utter excitment of going to work just don`t exist any more." - on ER "Certainly, since Anthony Edwards left "ER" (1994), I would say that my work on the show has diminished in terms of the challenges I face as an actress and what I am getting to do creatively on the show. If it continues to be diminished, then I am not going to be very happy".

On her nude scenes: "I didn`t have any qualms. I`m used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I`ve done it since I was 14 - with my mother`s adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model."

About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it`s sort of both. Californians don`t have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times".