I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.

My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.

Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Given the choice between a woman and a cigar I will always choose the cigar.

I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.

I am a student of cinema, and I love filmmaking of all kinds.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry.

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I'm pretty shy, but if I like a girl, she'll know.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn't bother me.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.

When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall.

If your baby is beautiful and perfect never cries or fusses sleeps on schedule and burps on demand an angel all the time youre the grandma.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.