It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.

People are always surprised by how much I love to eat. I guess I don't look like I eat that much, but I can put it away.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.