When I cook, I mean when I'm working crazy hours I always do Sunday dinner and I'm not afraid to ask for help, whether it's from Boston Market or from my friends to bring a dish ... it's all about community and really connecting.

I sort of watched everyone go through it on that show ["Grey's Anatomy" ] because I came on later in the first season, so I kind of watched everyone else go through it but really I am so grateful and blessed and feel I have had such a great career and I love that fans love the shows that I do, and so when I get approached I still, I go, "Oh, thank you. That makes me feel good."

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!