Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

Time the devourer of everything.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.