I'm an actress, model, and singer.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when youre a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

On a personal level, you wear different masks.

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are married - they usually look forced or awkward.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.