It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.

It’s my job, to create a fantasy.

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it’s the director’s choice.

I always find something to keep me busy.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn’t work a room like Abbe Lane.

I love doing comedy – I get a laugh out of it, it’s not so serious.

Why can’t I be the adorable one?

First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with...

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she’s a little more edgy and snappy.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed...

I think suspense is a big thing.

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he...

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God – her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to...

I haven’t been on the stage in a long time.

I don’t want my wrinkles taken away – I don’t want to look like everyone else.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn’t bother me.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world’s 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn’t know her.

My mother wasn’t rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

You’d think that I’d be dieting, but I’m not.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that’s where I hide.

In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they’re gay or lesbian.

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we’re not consciously looking...

You’re not going to do good work if you’re not choosing something because it inspires you.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren’t expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I’m not going to give up doing interesting things. I’m going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

You want a lesson? I’ll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father’s from Puerto Rico. My mother’s from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won’t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and...

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn’t have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part...

I don’t feel like a grandmother. I don’t.

I feel my best when I’m happy.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can’t see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

I’d be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are...

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn’t believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about...

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren’t really that high.