I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

Miracles are for beginners.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.