I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I think we've all experienced sort of becoming who we are as a reaction to what we come from.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I can be a little acerbic.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I always want to work.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

The real training is building character for a good conduct.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

God has awesome plans for your life. So get excited!

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.