Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.

People came up: 'I thought you were 6 ft tall.' I'm average height - 5 ft 8 ins, skinny blonde. One guy says to me 'So, where's the fox from Mystic Pizza?

The babies are amazing ... They begin each day all warm and sleepy, smelling of promise.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.