It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.

And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Humanity is my religion

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

Truthfully, I wish I had a daily routine. It's hard being an actor because you never have a set schedule.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.