I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.