I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Kirkland currently (as of 2010) hosts a show on the syndicated HealthyLife Radio Network. [citation needed]
Kirkland has had frequent television roles including The Simple Life 5: Goes to Camp and the soap operas Valley of the Dolls and Days of Our Lives and Three's Company. Her father Frederic McMichael Kirkland worked in the scrap metal business.