I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.

My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.