There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

All men are difficult.

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

Even when your life is full of color you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.

Emotions moods impulses ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves at times in a bipolar mind.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

Ceremony is really a protection too in times of emotional involvement particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize we feel better able to handle life.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

Once you make a mistake in a fight or competition you never do that again.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.