When I went up there and accepted the [second] Emmy, I remembered that when I was about 20, a psychic told me I was going to win two Emmys that were going to be like bookends for playing a secretary on a sitcom. And I said, `I`m not going to do sitcoms. I`m a great actress and I`m going to change the world.`

I didn`t get Will & Grace" (1998) until I was almost 40. Had I listened to everybody else who kept saying, `Oh, there`s too much competition, you`ll never get an agent, you`ll never get a part, 90 percent of actors are out of work," if I`d listened to that, if everybody listened to that, then nobody would leave the house and the world would come to a crashing halt."

It doesn`t matter who you love, it`s that you love.