Lisa Edelstein Quotes

I`m all for Cuddy having sex sometime this season, so honk if you want to see my boobs

I think it`s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It`s funny to me that we`re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I`m famous? People criticize Michael Moore, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon for standing up for what they believe in, but that`s what they do. They never pretended to be anyone else.

I was one of those people who was literally famous for doing nothing . . . I was always a part of the club scene in New York and eventually was able to produce my own musical about AIDS ("Positive Me") because of the audience and press I received as a club kid. Eventually I was called in to screen test for this MTV show because word was out I was this neat club kid turned playwright. I got the job and basically was humiliated on the air every day. I`m an actor, not a hostess. It was horrifying. I had all this baby fat, so I was just HUGE on camera . . . I still can`t watch one frame of the show. Then I got all this hate mail because I couldn`t play the part right . . . Luckily the show got canceled after seven months. I was so relieved.

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that`s the only difficult part, finding shoes that don`t have leather on them.

There are so many good roles for women out there, I don`t understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true -- there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren`t interesting.