I try to plan our meals for the week on Sunday.

I really try to plan out my dinners in advance.

People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.

Our family is very art driven. We all love to create.

I can't whistle. My husband makes fun of me for that.

I'm sorry, but neon just doesn't look good on anybody!

The people who I enjoy cooking for the most are my family.

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

My love of entertaining and cooking truly came from traveling.

Spending time in the kitchen together with my children, it's huge.

Being a mom, it's up and down; it's a little bit of a rollercoaster.

I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while.

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

My husband is one of those guys who just loves sandwiches - breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true.

Seeing our kids' beautiful, colorful art hung on the wall brightens my heart and our home.

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

Being from California, avocado toast is very popular in our house. We have it almost every morning.

I've let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn't matter anymore.

I really don`t look at my life as being an accomplishment. I`m just very thankful for what I`ve been given.

I love being in the kitchen with my daughter right next to me on her step stool. It's sweet; we're connecting.

I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.

I've always loved to cook, and then my love of it just grew as I got older and started traveling and started entertaining.

I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.

If you have young kids, around 3 o'clock is a good time for a party because naps are over, and little ones can eat an early dinner.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

I have to say, I definitely picked a great guy. I picked a guy who's sweet, kind, and is a hardworking person. He's a great dad; he's a great husband.

I try to use a balance of the 80/20 percent, where 80 percent of the time I'm eating very well, and 20 percent of the time, I'm a little more adventurous.

My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.

Food can change your mood. It's almost like music a little bit, you know? It can break a fight. It could calm a child down. It could do so many things, and that's what I love.

My husband and I have very similar desires when we're entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.

If you feel like you can't throw a party, just put a timeline together. There are always little things you can do ahead of time - like washing and pressing linens and bringing out your tableware. Check them off as you complete them.

My whole thing is I try to balance it as much as possible. I love to enjoy food. I've always said that if I eat healthy during the week, then I give myself more leeway to have some fun on the weekends. And I stick to the gym. I try to go five to six days a week.

Back in my late teens, early 20s I always wanted to be a James Bond girl. That's totally different now. My life has changed so much, my priorities have changed. I don't know if I really have a dream role. I want to go to work every day where there's a role that I really enjoy and I believe in.

To me I think Twitter is a much more honest way to really connect with your fan base without it being the horrible magazines out there that might not get the truth right. At least this gives a little bit of an honest glimpse into someone's life without it being too overdone and too personal. You get to control it, which is what I like about it.

Any career if you're that passionate about it and you really want to do it, then you should go for it, absolutely. I will say acting is one of the hardest businesses, from what I've been told, even though it's the only business I've been doing my whole life. But knowing other people trying to break into it, I hear it's one of the hardest businesses to break into.

I think there's definitely much more opportunities for women now to find a role in 30s and 40s both. I think you're starting to find people really seeing that - here's the thing. It's hard for me to say and know the experience how it was ten, twenty years ago because I was only in my teens and my 20s, but I know from watching TV myself and watching film myself I see a lot more 30s and 40s on screen, which just makes me very, very happy. It's what we should be watching.

Back in the day I wanted to be a James Bond girl and I got really close to it too, but I didn't. But now it's just really about enjoying who I work with, the kind of atmosphere that I'm working in, and the character. That's why I think nowadays I tend to really try to be somewhat picky any more to what I do, not just going out to get a job. And sometimes you have to do that, you have to work just to work. But I'm very fortunate to say that I'm actually working at a job that I absolutely love and enjoy and everybody there I enjoy so much and I feel very blessed.

These days with our economy changing so much, there's not as much TV being made and there's a lot more reality these days, and not as many films being made. I find a lot of my friends who have been acting their whole lives having a hard time finding jobs these days. It's a tough time right now for everybody, which is why I feel very fortunate to have a great job right now. But if acting is something that you're extremely passionate about, I think you should always follow your heart and always follow your dreams. My parents taught me that at a young age and I think it's so true.

I don't think the entertainment business in general will ever just be okay with how people are. I think we're in a business that critiques everything we do, and you kind of just take it with a grain of salt. I look at my grandmother, and I think she's aged beautifully, so I hope that I could be a smidgen of how she's aged. There's nothing you can do. All you can do is take of yourself and do the things that make you feel good and make you healthy and age appropriately, but there's always going to be people out there are going to say something, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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