Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I always wanted to perform.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.

L.A. I could live without.

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.