Age: 46.
Birthplace: Chicago.
Current home: Beverly Hills, Calif.
Marital status: Single, never married.
Car: A 1982 British Racing Green Jaguar.
Working on: ”Knot`s Landing,” Thursdays on CBS, promoting my makeup video, ”The Eyes Have It,” and developing TV movies.
Worst job: At a fast-food drive-in during high school.
The last good movie I saw was: ”Platoon.”
The book I`ve been recommending lately is: ”Anywhere But Here,” by Mona Simpson.
Favorite pigout food: Taco chips.
Favorite performer: Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Personal hero: Gary Hart; he really has a vision for this country.
Every New Year`s I resolve: To push whatever I`m doing further.
Nobody knows I`m: Vulnerable.
I`d give anything to meet: Mikhail Gorbachev.
I hope I never have to: Be afraid that I`ll never work again.
The worst part of my job is: Getting up at 4:30 or 5 a.m.
The worst advice my mother ever gave me: ”Learn secretarial skills.”
People who knew me in high school thought I was: Sophisticated, which was what they put under my yearbook picture. That was weird because I was very unsophisticated. I was acting even then.
I knew I was a grown-up when I: Bought my first house. I was in my early 30s.
My most irrational act: Leaving Chicago at 18 to be a dancer.
My most irrational fear: I`m very claustrophobic. I hate elevators.
The best time of my life: The last five years. I`ve been more successful. The worst time of my life: When I was still in Chicago, wanting to get out but not yet doing it.
If I`ve learned one thing in life, it`s: You don`t get anything without a tremendous amount of efffort.
My most humbling experience: Going to the mission in downtown L.A. on Christmas Day and serving meals to the homeless.
