Illeana Douglas

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.