Fran Drescher

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.