Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.