On playing Lola in "Come Back Little Sheba": I`m usually typecast as strong, authoritative, so to find that kind of vulnerability is a real challenge. But Lola is not so far from me, either. I was married, and I understand how to be lonely in a marriage. I believe she`s in menopause. And that alone, hormonally, can send a woman into a tailspin. Add in her alcoholic husband, and (you`ve got) a decent person who`s just, um ... stuck. In the past. But she`s muuuch stronger than she thinks.

My dad said he had a teacher named Epatha who was influential in keeping him in school. But my mother said it was an old girlfriend of his. So that`s why she stuck in the Sharon Epatha. That`s what the "S" stands for. Everyone knows now because some numbskull I went to high school with decided to put it on the Internet.