That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I don't call him 'The Rock' to his face.

Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

It was, 'If you don't do 'The Show Goes On,' your album's not coming out.' I had nothing to do with that record - nothing. I was literally told how I should rap on it. But I'm a bastard, 'cos I'll turn around and put it back in your face.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

You can begin to have dreams grander than you have ever had and see many of them come true. All you have to do is learn and use the same skills that are used by those who do achieve their dreams.

It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal - it's got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.

I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

Competition, I think, is always a good thing.

The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

If you can't, continue to be nice to them. Eventually, they may start being nice. A bully wants to have friends, too.

Every thought is an afterthought.

Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.

Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.