It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

I always wear high heels.

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

Say yes to everything you’re excited about or afraid of.

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

Dignity is an anachronism.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

It's just hassle of having friends and family an' that.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.