I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.