Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Everyday is a good day, just some days are better

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

Looking a certain way is a blessing and a curse.

I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

You can either change yourself or allow the circumstance to change you. The choice is yours.

The adult were once young.The young have not yet attained adulthood.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'