A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I can't wait to get my face lifted but my husband says, 'No, don't do it.' I think if it makes you feel better, go for it, but it would be nice if it looked good. There are a lot of people out there who are disasters and you think, 'Why did you do that?

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.