My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.