As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.

James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.