"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

"You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people."

"I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives."

"The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods."

"It was really hard to find another project after my first film."

"I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got."

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."