Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.

I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."

The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.