I try to watch the show every week and improve upon myself. I've become a fan.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

I'm a great fan of Carey Lowell's and I loved Jill Hennessey.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

I try to watch the show every week and improve upon myself. I've become a fan.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I would love for TNT to run the whole season at one point. I don't think that'll ever happen, though.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Youve got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world it needs to be illustrated.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

I still fit in with the hillbillies!

I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.

What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.

There's nothing like Nashville for making records.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as well. It's a wonderful piece based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta called 'Monday Mornings.'

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.

The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.