Actress Quotes

Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I like laughter around me.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.