In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.

I let people down easy with inspiration.

I think people know that I've got a good heart.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing