If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl.