It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.