I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.

I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

The law is a microphone for the voiceless.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

You know, I'm blessed. 'Blessed' is a better way of saying 'rich.'

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.