I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty.

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

Every day is deeper and richer and more soulful.

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

My weekends are extremely precious.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it deliciousness in the moment childhood memories and that grin inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Its a lifes journey of finding ourselves finding our power and living for yourself not for everyone else.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.