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.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

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.

A loving heart is a magical magnet for magnificence.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.

The examined life is no picnic.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

I'm not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.