Most people are surprised to learn...
that I'm an old-school hip-hop fan. I came to the genre a little late—I grew up with a jazz musician father—but I love Biggie, Tupac, Pete Rock. You'd be hard-pressed to find some '80s and '90s rap that doesn't put me in a good mood.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be...
A systems analyst. Well, that's what aptitude tests told me. I didn't get my acting break until I was 38, so in my late 30s I started wondering whether I should try something else. I have no idea what a systems analyst does, but I'm sure I would have made a terrible one.

My furnniest flaw is...
That I mumble. I have a tendency to trail off, which renders me incapable of telling stories. Once, I was telling Matthew Perry a story, and he goes, "Okay, did you even hear what you just said?"

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, taught me...
That I am no city girl. I'm incomplete without a yard—a little suburbia. That said, if the guy I fall in love with has a penthouse in Manhattan, I'm not turning him down.

The last time I laughed really hard was...
At an antiques store in Mississippi. I was filming myself and a friend next to a flying, gyrating porcelain Santa Claus, when suddenly it whacked him in the head. I watch that video at least six times a day.

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