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

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.

As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

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