Also, there's the caliber of actors that we keep getting. Lorraine Bracco plays my mom and Chazz Palminteri plays my father, and Brian Dennehy and Donnie Wahlberg have been on the show. And, we've got Billy Burke from Twilight. We've gotten all kinds of fantastic actors. That speaks for itself.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.