TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

I got recognized more by little sweet Italian fans in six days than I've ever been recognized in L.A. in six years.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

You'll find that fellow gym go-ers are super supportive and friendly. It must be all those endorphins going around!

Being in the limelight with 'Glee,' I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.

I would like to learn to play the cello. I would like to paint. I would like to fully understand the concept of pi.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do some mean karaoke.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

I think it's important for people to know that it's okay to feel like you're not better as long as you keep trying.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I'm much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

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