What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

Sorry, honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.