You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place and people that raised me.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

My kids make me laugh every day. And they're so supportive. As I get older, they understand those things I worried about - the guilt of being gone - in a way that's so healing for me, when they say, "Mom, we know you love what you do. We love to watch you do what you do."

You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.