It's my favorite role - being a mom.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.

I will read four or five books at the same time.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

Enjoy things for what they are, when they are, in the moment.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.